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Also by Ernesto Mestre-Reed:

Sacrificio, August 2023
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Sacrificio, September 2022
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Sacrificio
Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Soho Press
August 2023
On Sale: August 15, 2023
456 pages
ISBN: 164129485X
EAN: 9781641294850
Kindle: B09N6QN9RG
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Hardcover (September 2022)

LGBTQ | Historical | LGBTQ Romance

Set in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.

Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss’s son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group “Los Injected Ones,” which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II’s upcoming visit.
 
When Renato goes missing, Rafa’s search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city’s detritus by Los Injected Ones.
 
A novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse, Sacrificio is a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.

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