The Singer\'s Needle offers a bold new approach to the History of twentieth-century Panam , one that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small and complex nation.
Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three crucial episodes in the shaping and erosion of contemporary Panamanian institutions: the establishment of a penal colony on the island of Coiba in 1919, the judicial drama following the murder of President Jos Antonio Rem n Cantera in 1955, and the "disappearance".
The Singer\'s Needle offers a bold new approach to the History of twentieth-century Panam , one that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small and complex nation