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Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano (2009 Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Book Series
- Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano (2009, Trade Paper
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Features
- Illustrated
- ISBN
- 9781933354682
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Akashic Books
ISBN-10
1933354682
ISBN-13
9781933354682
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65915214
Product Key Features
Book Title
Havana Lunar
Number of Pages
197 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
Item Length
7.1 in
Item Width
4.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-925931
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
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 is how 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 . . ., Written with passion and vision and with a clear, unflinching eye, Robert Arellano's Havana 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 that Havana Lunar will find a wide and enthusiastic readership.
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
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 teenage jinetera named Julia. She takes refuge in his clinic to break away from the abusive chulo 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, from Cold Tales by Virgilio Pi era to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls , Robert Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery., 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 teenage jinetera named Julia. She takes refuge in his clinic to break away from the abusive chulo 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, from Cold Tales by Virgilio Piñera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls , Robert Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery., -- Havana Lunar named a Notable Selection in CrimeReads '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 of Heart of the Old Country , editor of Brooklyn Noir 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 teenage jinetera named Julia. She takes refuge in his clinic to break away from the abusive chulo 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 noir, from the Cold Tales of Virgilio Pinera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls , Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery that climaxes in the eye of Hurricane Andrew., Inspired by 50 years of Cuban noir, from the Cold Tales of Virgillo Pinera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider's testimony of the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery that climaxes in the eye of Hurricane Andrew. A literary crime novel set on the last island of Socialism.
LC Classification Number
PS3601.R45
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