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      Caracol Beach

      by Eliseo Alberto
      Published
      May 2000
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      Eliseo Alberto's award-winning Caracol Beach combines the passionate imagination of magic realism with the plotting of a thriller (and a modicum of farce). The result is a literary tour de force.

      Beto Milanes, the night watchman at a graveyard in the Florida resort town of Caracol Beach, is a guilt-ridden Cuban war veteran. Tormented by memories and hallucinations, he yearns to die but is unable to take his own life. Instead, he decides to force someone-anyone-to kill him. That decision sets in motion a night of violence that draws an odd assortment of characters into Beto's orbit. In scenes that range from the jungles of Angola to a seedy Florida bar, Alberto explores war, madness, exile, and the redemptive power of love.

      Translated by Edith Grossman.

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      Nov 2001 Vintage ISBN13 9780375705069 ISBN10 0375705066
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      First Edition May 2000 Knopf ISBN13 9780375405402 ISBN10 0375405402
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      Nov 2010 Alfaguara ISBN10 B005H3RL52
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