Dancing to "Almendra" - Softcover

Mayra, Montero

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312426739 ISBN 13: 9780312426736

Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2007

Synopsis

Dancing To 'Almendra': a Novel

About this title

Review:

"I devoured it with absolute delight, and I'm looking forward to reading it again, and to reading anything Montero might come up with next." --The New York Times Book Review

"Montero exploits true crime, romance, family drama, cabaret, and even danzón. . . . Her new novel is a hell of a song." --San Francisco Chronicle

"[Montero] has crafted a story of pre-revolutionary Havana that crackles with violence, mystery, and a truly eccentric view of love. Imagine Raymond Carver crossed with Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"An extremely stylish novel . . . Montero is an energetic writer and Grossman's translation renders her prose into a wry, bawdy, delicious rhythm. . . . Here is a story of [Montero's] native country, marching toward the future one murder, one one-night stand, one dead hippo at a time. It's even more fun than it sounds." --The Star-Ledger (Newark)

"Montero has delivered a well-written, cinematic story that fairly steps off the page. Think Chinatown set in the late 1950s, pre-Castro Cuba." --The Plain Dealer

"Masterful . . . What a story! Montero has played her usual sleight of hand." --Houston Chronicle

Book Description:

A spellbinding chronicle of love, murder and the mob in pre-revolutionary Havana

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312426739
• ISBN 13: 9780312426736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272