Call me Cassandra / Marcial Gala ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gala, Marcial, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Kushner, Anna, translator.

Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Llámenme Casandra. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cassandra (Legendary character)--Fiction.

Cassandra.

Cassandra (Legendary character).

Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.

Identity (Psychology).

Transgender people.

Fate and fatalism--Fiction.

Fate and fatalism.

Reincarnation--Fiction.

Reincarnation.

Cuba--Fiction.

Cuba.

Trans people--Fiction.

Trans people.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"A darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, and believing himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology"-- Provided by publisher.

Cuba in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in hostile world: his older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. Rauli know three things to be true: he was born in the wrong body; he will die at age eighteen as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola; and he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. -- adapted from jacket

Notes:

"Copyright © 2019 by Marcial Gala. Translation copyright ©2022 by Anna Kushner." -- Verso

Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction - Finalist, 2023

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780374602017

0374602018

OCLC:

1246143812