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      The Lazarus Rumba

      by Ernesto Mestre
      Published
      Jul 2000
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      512
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      A modern tale rooted in recent historical events but filtered through a patiently unfolding storytelling style that pays homage to The Arabian Nights, The Lazarus Rumba is a stunning literary debut, a virtuoso performance like no other Latino writer has ever produced.

      This extraordinary ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country best by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales, tales told contrapuntally in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and grotesque. As intensely political as Manuel Puig's Kiss Of The Spider Woman or Milan Kundera's The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, The Lazarus Rumba centers around three generations of women in the Lucientes family and follows the story of Alicia Lucientes as she almost inadvertantly becomes the most famous dissident on the Island.

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      First Edition Jul 2000 Picador ISBN13 9780312263522 ISBN10 031226352X
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      Jan 2015 Picador ISBN10 B00QQMPTJI
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      Feb 2015 Picador ISBN13 9781466890060 ISBN10 1466890061
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