Dancing to "Almendra": A Novel
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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 Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaqu�n Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mobster's when a secretive z... More
Book Information
Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Binding | Hardcover (9 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 272 |
ISBN-10 | 0374102775 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0374102777 |
Publication Date | 01/23/2007 |
The Creators
About E. Grossman (Translator) : E. Grossman is a published author and a translator. Some of the published credits of E. Grossman include The Feast of the Goat: A Novel, Dancing to "Almendra": A Novel, Love in the Time of Cholera (Pe... more
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