Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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 zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.Author: Mayra Montero
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/26/2007
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780312426736
ISBN10: 0312426739
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Caribbean & West Indies
About the Author
Mayra Montero is the author of a collection of short stories and of eight novels, including The Messenger, The Last Night I Spent with You, and Captain of the Sleepers. She was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico, where she writes a weekly column in El Nuevo Dia newspaper.