Revue de presse :
As his terrific first novel shows, he also has a genius for telling a story. In the most colourful South American tradition, the events are often violent and tragic, but the prose is vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling, and he has a cynical eye for the awful comedy of everything ... The pace leaves you breathless (Kate Saunders, The Times --The Times
Acosta has as much a winning way with words as he ahs charm and presence on the ballet stage ... Translated from the original Spanish by award-winning translator Frank Wynne, Acosta's prose is poetic and raw. He conjures evocative landscapes ... And conveys sympathy ... Passionate and uncompromising to the end, Oscar exerts a powerful charm on the reader (The Lady) --The Lady
When an acclaimed ballet dancer makes a foray into writing fiction, be prepared for it to be hailed as "sure-footed". The good news is that Cuban star Carlos Acosta does, indeed, barely put a step wrong in his debut novel, Pig's Foot, an exuberantly enjoyable tale (Financial Times) --Financial Times
Présentation de l'éditeur :
One day Oscar Kortico wakes to find himself utterly alone in the world. As the sole descendant of his family line he is not sure what to do or where he should go, but in the midst of this uncertainty, he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: 'No man knows who he is until he knows his past, the history of his country.'
As he sets out to find the lost village of Pata de Puerco and the meaning of the magical pig's-foot amulet he has inherited, the search for his country's hidden history becomes entangled with his search for the truth about himself.
Through a vivid, if not entirely reliable, retelling of the stories of his ancestors we live the tumultuous history of Cuba through Oscar's eyes, from the arrival of slaves through the wars of independence, to Bacardi rum, dictatorship, revolution and, finally, to a freedom of sorts.
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