The tribe : portraits of Cuba / Carlos Manuel Álvarez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne with Rahul Bery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Álvarez, Carlos Manuel, 1989- author.

Contributor:

Wynne, Frank, translator.

Bery, Rahul, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Tribu. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cuba--Civilization--21st century.

Cuba.

Cuba--History--21st century.

Civilization.

Genre:

Creative nonfiction.

History.

Physical Description:

299 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]

Language Note:

Translated from Spanish to English.

Summary:

"Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the crónica form--a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative nonfiction, and novelistic techniques--to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the United States, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement. Unique, edgy, and stylishly written, The Tribe shows a society in flux, featuring athletes in exile, artists, nurses, underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting to make their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, and dealers in the black market, as well as revelers and policemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists."--Amazon.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Post-Castro Cuba, an Approximation

Black Pitcher, White Socks

Wanted

Death of the Train Driver

Tight-Lipped

Dancing in the Dark

The Malecon: The Orgy of Forms

Offside

The Road to the North

Engineers and Traffickers

Thursdays with Ray

Broken Doll

The National Performance

Panama Selfies

Alcides, the Unpublished

Fidel, the Butcher

A Trapped (and Multiple) Tiger

Death in Jesus Maria.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781644450901

1644450909

OCLC:

1264275353