Description
Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra.
Author: Marcial Gala
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9781250863003
ISBN10: 1250863007
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
About the Author
Marcial Gala is a novelist, a poet, and an architect from Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. His novel The Black Cathedral received the Premio de la CrÃtica Literaria and the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012 and was published in English by FSG in 2020. Gala also won the 2018 Ñ Prize of the City of Buenos Aires-ClarÃn for Call Me Cassandra. He lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos.
Anna Kushner, the daughter of Cuban exiles, was born in Philadelphia and has been traveling to Cuba since 1999. In addition to The Black Cathedral and Call Me Cassandra, she has translated the novels of Norberto Fuentes, Leonardo Padura, Guillermo Rosales, and Gonçalo M. Tavares, as well as two collections of nonfiction by Mario Vargas Llosa.This title is not returnable