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The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba

The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba

Current price: $18.90
Publication Date: May 11th, 2022
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN:
9781913097912
Pages:
0

Description

Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel lvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the cr nica form - a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelistic forms - to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement.

Unique, edgy and stylishly written, The Tribe shows a society in flux, featuring sportsmen in exile, artists, nurses, underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting to make their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, dealers from the black market, as well as revelers and policemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language novelists.

About the Author

Carlos Manuel Álvarez divides his time between Havana and Mexico City. He was included in Bogotá39's best Latin American writers under 40 in 2017 and in Granta's Best Young Spanish Novelists in 2021. The Tribe, his first book, appeared in 2017 with Sexto Piso. He is also the author of two novels, The Fallen (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019), and Falsa Guerra (forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions).