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Telex from Cuba Rachel Kushner

Telex from Cuba By Rachel Kushner

Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner


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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

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Telex from Cuba Summary

Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past. Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.

Telex from Cuba Reviews

"Rachel Kushner's debut novel is an absolute blinder... Like the sea which surrounds Cuba, Telex From Cuba is ever-shifting, and it is luminous" * The Times *
"If you relish glittering language that pursues emotional and political truth, you'll be enthralled by Telex from Cuba... the atmosphere seethes and crackles... [a] lush, intoxicating book" * Independent *
"Telex from Cuba is epic and enjoyable: the style is lush and precise; the parties and cookouts, the drinks and affairs are beautiful and poignant, full of the pleasures of wealth overshadowed by loss." -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
"Fascinating and vividly detailed... You can almost feel the heat radiating from the page: the air is mosquito-thick and tainted with a nickel oxide haze, the tropical landscape a character in its own right" * Observer *
"A piece of fiction quite breathtaking in its assurance [...] a beautifully weighted treatise on colonial attitudes, capitalism, racism and the interactions and divisions between cultures and classes" -- Billy O'Callaghan * Irish Examiner *
"A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel" * Elle *
"Kushner evokes a dreamlike paradise... A poignant tale" -- Antonia Charlesworth * Big Issue *
"[Kushner's] cleverly counterposed registers and nuanced explanation of the way we make and remake ourselves elevates her book beyond the standard historical romp" -- David Annand * Sunday Telegraph *
"Detail-packed prose" * Glasgow Herald *
"Deeply evocative... A fascinating and vividly detailed portrait of the country" -- Natasha Tripney * Observer *
"An intriguing, multifaceted portrait of a society in flux" -- David Evans * Independent on Sunday *
"Massively compelling... Tough yet tender writing that throbs with history, nostalgia and love" * Bath Chronicle *
"It begs for a big-screen adaptation" * London Magazine *
"Telex from Cuba is a wonderful debut and essential reading for those who wish to follow the career of one of the best new writers of our generation" -- Stephen Joyce * Nudge *
"[Telex From Cuba] proves that this American author is a superstar of the future" -- Nick Barley * Herald *

About Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller. Her follow-up novel, The Flamethrowers, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

Additional information

CIN0099586991VG
9780099586999
0099586991
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2014-02-01
336
N/A
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