DANCING TO 'ALMENDRA' - Couverture souple

Montero, Mayra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312426739 ISBN 13 : 9780312426736

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2007

Synopsis

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mayra Montero is the author of a collection of short stories and of eight novels, including The Messenger, The Last Night I Spent with You, and Captain of the Sleepers. She was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico, where she writes a weekly column in El Nuevo Dia newspaper.

Edith Grossman (1936 - 2023) translated the poetry and prose of major Spanish-language and Latin American authors, including Nobel laureates Gabriel García Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as Alvaro Mutis, Mayra Montero, and Miguel de Cervantes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312426739
• ISBN 13: 9780312426736
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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