Name: Telex da Cuba
ISBN: 9788852014383

Rachel Kushner

Everly Lederer e K.C. Stites crescono nella Cuba degli anni Cinquanta. Sono figli dei funzionari americani alle dipendenze della United Fruit che vivono all'interno di un'enclave circondata dai trecentomila acri della piantagione di canna da zucchero, nella provincia di Oriente...

Telex da Cuba

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 Raúl 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.

Telex from Cuba

Laurin C Guthrie

Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indulgences and betrayals of the adult world and are swept up by the political underground and the revolt led by Fidel and Raul Castro. 75,000 first printing.

Telex da Cuba

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