Dancing To "almendra": A Novel

by Mayra Montero

2020-12-28 18:54:20

A New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceHavana, 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 ... Read more

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.

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.61 in
Print pages272
PublisherPicador
Publication date December 26, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780312426736
Mayra Montero is the author of a collection of short stories and seven novels, most of which are available in English. She was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico.Edith Grossman is the translator of...

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