Dancing to 'Almendra'

Mint condition.Picador,2007.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Tranlated by Edith Grossman.Brown hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the back cover) with Dj(small nick and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.The book is new with a small ink mark on the outer edge of the pages.265pp.Price un-clipped.First edition.

From Publisher:

This story is set in 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 Havana Zoo. Joaquin Porrata is the young Cuban journalist assigned to cover the latter story but, told by a secretive zookeeper that he 'knows too much', he soon discovers that the two events are not as unconnected as they might initially seem. In exchange for a promise to introduce the keeper to his idol, the film star George Raft, now the host of the Capri Casino, Joaquin obtains information that ensnares him in an ever-deepening plot of murder, mobsters and - finally - love, as he meets Yolanda, a beautiful ex-circus performer, now working for the famed caberet San Souci. An ardent and thrilling tale of innocence lost, of Havana's secret one-time world of violence, fantastic characters and extravagant crimes, Dancing to Almendra is a triumph of story-telling from one of Latin America's most impassioned and intoxicating voices. Praise for Mayra Montero's previous novels: 'A literary tour de force ...A tale of unforgettable beauty' - Los Angeles Times on The Messenger.'A dazzling, original fugue on love and extinction' - New Yorker on The Palm of Darkness.

Product Info

ISBN: 033044932X

ISBN-13: 9780330449328

Publisher: Picador

Year: 2007

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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