Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature Series)
WILL BE MADE INTO A FILM DIRECTED BY ANDY GARCIA AND STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN Cabrera Infante has written the screenplay for the film himself. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography - such as the section entitled "Some Revelations", which consists of several blank...
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WILL BE MADE INTO A FILM DIRECTED BY ANDY GARCIA AND STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN Cabrera Infante has written the screenplay for the film himself. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography - such as the section entitled "Some Revelations", which consists of several blank pages - this novel is a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centring on the recollections of a man separated from both is country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colourful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781564783790 (1564783790)
ASIN: 1564783790
Publish date: September 30th 2004
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Pages no: 487
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature
This is not the first Latin American novel to which I suspect I would give five stars, were I only smart enough to fully comprehend it. What is it with these guys? I loved the first 350-400 pages of this, and there was this 20-page chapter that truly blew my mind, but then the end was this seemingly...
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