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<p><b>A modern tale rooted in recent historical events but filtered through a patiently unfolding storytelling style that pays homage to <i>The Arabian Nights</i>, <i>The Lazarus Rumba</i> is a stunning literary debut, a virtuoso performance like no other Latino writer has ever produced.</b><br><br>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' <i>Don Quixote</i>, <i>The Lazarus Rumba</i> 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<i> Kiss Of The Spider Woman</i> or Milan Kundera's <i>The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting</i>, <i>The Lazarus Rumba</i> 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.</p>

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Author

Mestre, Ernesto

Publisher

Picador USA

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466890060

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14