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Scribner
September 2010
On Sale: September 7, 2010
224 pages
ISBN: 1439181748
EAN: 9781439181744
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Fiction
National Book Award finalist Cristina García delivers a
powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of
the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central
American capital in the midst of political turmoil. The
lives of six men and women converge over the course of one
week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town
for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerrilla now working
as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop; a Korean
manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the
honeymoon suite; aninternational adoption lawyer of German
descent; a colonel who committed atrocities during his
country’s long civil war; and a Cuban poet who has come with
his American wife to adopt a local infant. With each day,
their lives become further entangled, resulting in the
unexpected—the clash of histories and the pull of revenge
and desire.Cristina García’s magnificent orchestration of
politics, the intimacies of daily life, and the frailty of
human nature unfolds in a moving, ambitious, often comic,
and unforgettable tale.
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Re: The Lady Matador's Hotel
This story sounds like it has a rich tapestry from life! I'm sure the characters will leave you spellbound & wanting for more. This could be a work of daily life in any large Latin American country. I know, I grew up in the largest City in the world & these characters sound like many I have met while living there.
(Quetzi Fernald 4:09am September 10, 2010)
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