Magical realism books set in Cuba (4)
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1.
Pig's Foot by Carlos Acosta EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
______________________ 'Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless' - Kate Saunders, The Times 'Elegant and seductive' - Guardian 'Spellbinding ... Acosta does for prose what he has done for the ballet, bringing to it a muscular sexiness and a rural saltiness' - Independent on Sunday ______________________ A dazzling novel of revolution, family secrets, love and identity across four generations Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales – some taller than others. But one day Oscar ... continue
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The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked... continue
4.
The Island of Eternal Love by Daína Chaviano EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Hearing the life story of a mysterious old woman in a Little Havana bar, Cuban-American Cecilia learns about three generations of a family of diverse origins that includes such members as a reverent Chinese widow, an African slave, and a Spanish matriarch