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Title: DANCING TO 'ALMENDRA'
By: Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0330449311
ISBN 13: 9780330449311
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 6 June, 2008
Pages: 264
Translated from: Spanish
Description: A spellbinding chronicle of love, murder and the mob in pre-revolutionary Havana
Synopsis: 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. 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. 'Brilliant ...Montero moves her story along at a lick, but in the giddy swirl of events she leaves plenty of space for absurdist humour. She handles this blend of fact and fiction with brio' Observer 'Combining the dangerous world of violence with the glittering surface of Havana's nightlife, this is an intoxicating tale' Metro 'A sensitive and touching novel' Big Issue 'Brilliant ...Dancing to 'Almendra' is an exuberant must-read' Observer
Publication: UK
Imprint: Picador
Returns: Returnable
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DANCING TO ''ALMENDRA'' (HB)
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DON QUIXOTE
DON QUIXOTE (HB)
DON QUIXOTE (PB)
DON QUIXOTE DELUXE EDITION (PB)
EXEMPLARY NOVELS (HB)
IN CASE OF FIRE IN A FOREIGN LAND (HB)
IN CASE OF FIRE IN A FOREIGN LAND (PB)
IN THE NIGHT OF TIME
IN THE NIGHT OF TIME
IN THE NIGHT OF TIME (HB)
IN THE NIGHT OF TIME (PB)
IN THE PALM OF DARKNESS (PB)
LIVING TO TELL THE TALE (HB)
MAQROLL (PB)
MAQROLL'S PRAYER AND OTHER POEMS (PB)
MY NIGHT WITH/MI NOCHE CON FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA (PB)
NADA (PB)
RED APRIL (PB)
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ (HB)
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ (PB)
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ: SELECTED WORKS (PB)
THE GENERAL AND HIS LABYRINTH (HB)
THE GOLDEN AGE (PB)
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN AND POET FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ASCENDS TO HELL (HB)
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN AND POET FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ASCENDS TO HELL (PB)
THE MESSENGER (PB)
THE MESSENGER (PB)
THE RED OF HIS SHADOW (PB)
THE SOLITUDES (PB)
WHY TRANSLATION MATTERS (PB)
YOU, DARKNESS, PANTHER (PB)

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