King of Cuba A Novel

Name: King of Cuba A Novel
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ISBN: 9781476725666

ISBN-10: 1476725667

ISBN-13: 9781476725666

Edition: 2013

Authors: Cristina Garcia

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A "darkly hilarious" (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this "clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the island" (Kirkus Reviews).El Comandante, an aging dictator, shambles about his mansion in Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers in one of his prisons, and grapples with the stale end of a life now as devoid of grandeur as his nearly sixty-year-old revolution. Across the waters in Florida, Goyo Herrera, a Miami exile in his eighties, plots revenge against his longtime enemy--the very same…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 10/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Cristina Garc#237;a is the author of six novels, including the National Book Award finalist Dreaming in Cuban; children's books; anthologies; and poetry. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers' Award, among other honors, and is currently University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University-San Marcos. Visit her website at CristinaGarciaNovelist.com.nbsp;nbsp;