Three Trapped Tigers

by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Rating: 4 (1 vote)

Tags: Set in Cuba Male author

Three Trapped Tigers

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From the Publisher: Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

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(6 months ago)
21 Mar, 2025
*REVIEW IS OF AUDIOBOOK VERSION* I’m not sure I ever understood what the plot was, but it was entertaining nonetheless. Enrico Santi is truly masterful in his performance of this novel. I will definitely look for more titles performed by him. I think reading this book would be unbearable because of its rather fluid structure, but as an audiobook with a fantastic narrator it kind of works. Although it is often described as Joycean the writing actually reminded me a lot of Nabokov in terms of play on words, and this is what made it entertaining, but if you were to ask me what it was about I couldn’t answer very well. It seems to be a snap shot in the lives of various characters and, much like reality, there is no real beginning or end.

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