Telex from Cuba
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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.
Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.
Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.
Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.
Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
Title: Telex from Cuba
Author: Kushner, Rachel
ISBN: 9780099586999
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2014-04-03
Number of Pages: 336
Weight: 0.2405 kg
Rachel Kushner's debut novel is an absolute blinder... Like the sea which surrounds Cuba, Telex From Cuba is ever-shifting, and it is luminous * The Times *
If you relish glittering language that pursues emotional and political truth, you'll be enthralled by Telex from Cuba... the atmosphere seethes and crackles... [a] lush, intoxicating book * Independent *
Telex from Cuba is epic and enjoyable: the style is lush and precise; the parties and cookouts, the drinks and affairs are beautiful and poignant, full of the pleasures of wealth overshadowed by loss. -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
Fascinating and vividly detailed... You can almost feel the heat radiating from the page: the air is mosquito-thick and tainted with a nickel oxide haze, the tropical landscape a character in its own right * Observer *
A piece of fiction quite breathtaking in its assurance [...] a beautifully weighted treatise on colonial attitudes, capitalism, racism and the interactions and divisions between cultures and classes -- Billy O'Callaghan * Irish Examiner *
A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel * Elle *
Kushner evokes a dreamlike paradise... A poignant tale -- Antonia Charlesworth * Big Issue *
[Kushner's] cleverly counterposed registers and nuanced explanation of the way we make and remake ourselves elevates her book beyond the standard historical romp -- David Annand * Sunday Telegraph *
Detail-packed prose * Glasgow Herald *
Deeply evocative... A fascinating and vividly detailed portrait of the country -- Natasha Tripney * Observer *
An intriguing, multifaceted portrait of a society in flux -- David Evans * Independent on Sunday *
Massively compelling... Tough yet tender writing that throbs with history, nostalgia and love * Bath Chronicle *
It begs for a big-screen adaptation * London Magazine *
Telex from Cuba is a wonderful debut and essential reading for those who wish to follow the career of one of the best new writers of our generation -- Stephen Joyce * Nudge *
[Telex From Cuba] proves that this American author is a superstar of the future -- Nick Barley * Herald *
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