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Scribner
June 2013
On Sale: May 21, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 1476710244
EAN: 9781476710242
Kindle: B008O5FRS8
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Fiction Family Life
Vivid and alive, Cristina García’s new novel transports
readers to Cuba, to Miami, and into the heads of two
larger-than-life men—a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an
octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge
against the dictator. In King of Cuba, the National
Book Award finalist and author of Dreaming in Cuban,
writing at the top of her form with humor and humanity,
returns to the territory of her homeland. El
Comandante, an aging dictator, shambles about his mansion in
Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers in
one of his prisons, and grapples with the stale end of his
life that is as devoid of grandeur as his nearly
sixty-year-old revolution. Across the waters in Florida,
Goyo Herrera, a Miami exile in his eighties, plots revenge
against his longtime enemy—the very same El Comandante—whom
he blames for stealing his beloved, ruining his homeland,
and taking his father’s life. Herrera would gladly “wear
chains on his ankles, chisel stones for his remaining days,
even become a goddamn Democrat for the gratification of
personally expediting the tyrant’s journey back to the
Devil, with whom he’d obviously made a pact.”
With her masterful twinning of El Comandante and
Herrera, along with the rabble of other Cuban voices that
combine to create a chorus of history’s unofficial stories,
García plumbs the passions and realities of these two
Cubas—on the island and off—and offers a pulsating story
that entertains and illuminates.
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