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Havana Lunar named a Notable Selection inCrimeReads's 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade! "A sad, surreal, beautiful tour of the hell that was Cuba in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The writing is hypnotic, the storytelling superb.Havana Lunar is perfect." --Tim McLoughlin, author ofHeart of the Old Country, editor ofBrooklyn Noir "Written with passion and vision and with a clear, unflinching eye, Robert Arellano'sHavana Lunar breaks new ground. It is not a Cuban American novel but a Cuban novel written in English. In it the Cuban underworld of chulos and jineteras is revealed and the uber-world of political bosses and apparatchiks unmasked. I am certain thatHavana Lunar will find a wide and enthusiastic readership." --Pablo Medina, author ofThe Cigar Roller "Robert Arellano's book is a hypnotic trip into another world, a place we are hardly ever allowed to go--Castro's Cuba. Without polarizing political pontifications or moral insertions of right and wrong, Arellano takes us straight into a country where people survive, combining resilience with ingenuity to keep the best of what works while simply sneaking around the things that don't. It's the way of life for most people who live under dictatorships--and yet the joy and beauty of this novel ishow effortlessly he weaves his characters into our lives...It's as if Balzac meets Philip K. Dick, for Arellano's Cuba is a whole other planet to us, one we definitely need to know more about..." --Abraham Rodriguez, author ofSouth by South Bronx One hungry, hallucinatory night in the dark heart of Havana, Mano Rodriguez, a young doctor with the revolutionary medical service, comes to the aid of a teenagejinetera named Julia. She takes refuge in his clinic to break away from the abusivechulo who prostituted her, and they form an unlikely allegiance that Mano thinks might save him from his twin burdens: the dead-end hospital assignment he was delegated after being blacklisted by the Cuban Communist Party and a Palo Monte curse on his love life commissioned by a vengeful ex-wife. But when the pimp and his bodyguards come after Julia and Mano, the violent chain-reaction plunges them all into the decadent catacombs of Havana's criminal underworld. Inspired by fifty years of Cuban literary noir, fromCold Talesby Virgilio Piñera to Reinaldo Arenas'Before Night Falls, Robert Arellano'sHavana Lunarintertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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If you're like me and you know absolutely nothing about Cuba (and your spanish is a bit rusty) you're going to have to muddle through this one and keep a spanish to english dictionary nearby. For the most part you can figure the meanings out by context, but in my opinion you lose something going that route. Knowing what is being said helps give the characters more depth.
The first part of this novel was the more difficult for me. Setting up the world and the characters in it can be an arduous task for a reader to get through, fighting down the desire to get the meat of the story. Its even more arduous when trying to do a history lesson at the same time.
Still its a good read, even if its not my favorite of Arellano's.
I say: me gusta! ( )