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Dancing to "Almendra"

Dancing to "Almendra" - Paperback

by Mayra Montero
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Translator)Publish date:2007-12-26Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312426736ISBN-10:312426739UPC:9780312426736Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCX5RS99Z4

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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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312426736ISBN-10:312426739UPC:9780312426736Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCX5RS99Z4

Mayra Montero is the author of a collection of short stories and of eight novels, including The Messenger, The Last Night I Spent with You, and Captain of the Sleepers. She was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico, where she writes a weekly column in El Nuevo Dia newspaper.


Publisher: Picador USA

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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Translator)

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Mayra Montero

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