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Havana, 1957.
On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber’s chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquín Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo’s death and the mobster’s when a secretive zookeeper whispers to him that he ‘knows too much’. In exchange for a promise to introduce the keeper to his idol, the film star George Raft, now the host of the Capri casino, Joaquín gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.
The love story is another mystery. Told by Yolanda, a beautiful ex-circus performer now working for the famed Sans Souci cabaret, it interleaves through Joaquín’s underworld investigations, eventually revealing a family secret deeper even than Havana’s brilliantly evoked enigmas.
In Dancing to ‘Almendra’, Mayra Montero has created an ardent and thrilling tale of innocence lost, of Havana’s secret world that is ‘the basis for the clamor of the city’, and of the end of a violent era of fantastic characters and extravagant crimes. Based on the true history of a bewitching city and its denizens, ‘Almendra’ is the latest triumph from one of Latin America’s most impassioned and intoxicating voices.
Praise for Mayra Montero's previous novels:
'A literary tour de force . . . A tale of unforgettable beauty' Los Angeles Times on The Messenger
'A dazzling, original fugue on love and extinction' New Yorker on The Palm of Darkness
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'A flawless little book with a deceptively light touch...I
devoured it with absolute delight' -- New York Times
'About the transcendental life of the imagination as well as death
and detection...such distinctive reading.' -- Independent
'Brilliant...Montero moves her story along at a lick, but in the
giddy swirl of events she leaves plenty of space for absurdist humour.' -- Observer
'Masterful' -- Miami Herald
'Mayhem, mobsters and romance play out in a vivid evocation of
Havana's fantastic secret world' -- Morning News
'a must-read'
-- Jamaica Gleaner
'a sensitive and touching novel' -- Big Issue
'an elegant story of crime and passion...a vivid portrait of a
louche, exciting underworld.' -- The Times
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devoured it with absolute delight' -- New York Times
'About the transcendental life of the imagination as well as death
and detection...such distinctive reading.' -- Independent
'Brilliant...Montero moves her story along at a lick, but in the
giddy swirl of events she leaves plenty of space for absurdist humour.' -- Observer
'Masterful' -- Miami Herald
'Mayhem, mobsters and romance play out in a vivid evocation of
Havana's fantastic secret world' -- Morning News
'a must-read'
-- Jamaica Gleaner
'a sensitive and touching novel' -- Big Issue
'an elegant story of crime and passion...a vivid portrait of a
louche, exciting underworld.' -- The Times
A spellbinding chronicle of love, murder and the mob in pre-revolutionary Havana
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 033044932X
- ISBN 13 9780330449328
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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