Ebook {Epub PDF} Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

In Havana, a thousand kilometers and a world away from the American colony, a cabaret dancer meets a French agitator named Christian de La Mazière, whose seductive demeanor can't mask his shameful past. Together they become enmeshed in the brewing political underground.  · Telex from Cuba, Kushner's first novel, has now been released in the UK, and readers of The Flamethrowers, for whom Kushner became an instant necessity, can get a Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.  · In this multilayered first novel set in s Cuba, American expatriates try to bury their dark pasts, even as the Castro brothers gather revolutionaries in the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.

In Telex From Cuba, Kushner's precise descriptions and unexpected metaphors capture the tropical environment of Cuba and the worry that the climate and other unfamiliar aspects of the country inspired in www.doorway.ru swampy humidity is almost overpowering and contributes to the sense of escalating tensions as revolutionary groups nestled in nearby mountains plot assaults on the sugar. Telex from Cuba Rachel Kushner, Simon Schuster pp. ISBN Summary An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution—a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. Kushner's first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Kushner's colorful, character-driven debut succinctly captures the essence of life for a gilded circle of American expats in pre-Castro Cuba, chronicling a m lange of philandering spouses.

In this multilayered first novel set in s Cuba, American expatriates try to bury their dark pasts, even as the Castro brothers gather revolutionaries in the hills. Telex from Cuba Rachel Kushner, Simon Schuster pp. ISBN Summary An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution—a place that was a . “Telex from Cuba” is a social/political novel focusing on the Americans who ran the US sugar and nickel concessions in Cuba in Oriente province, before and as the Castro revolution took place. Fortunately, it is more a social than a political novel, because Kushner does a better job with the social.