Three Trapped Tigers - Softcover

G. Cabrera Infante

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330261339 ISBN 13: 9780330261333

Publisher: Picador, 1980

Synopsis

Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the U.S. from Cuba. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography--such as the section entitled "Some Revelations," which consists of several blank pages--this novel has been praised as a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centering on the recollections of a man separated from both his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

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Review:

"With Three Trapped Tigers Cabrera Infante enters the front rank of Latin American novelists. The book belongs with Cortazar's Hopscotch, Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Donoso's The Obscure Bird of Night." --New York Review of Books

From the Publisher:

It is Marlowe's privilege to reintroduce G. Cabrera Infante!

FROM SUSAN SONTAG: "It now seems utterly extraordinary that anyone can write brilliant prose in more than one language; we marvel at a Nabokov, a Beckett, a Cabrera Infante."

FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: "A writer to be reckoned with...raw, powerful, and unique."

FROM TIME: "It is clear that TTT can stand on the same shelf with Gabriel Garcia Marquez's very dissimilar One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the provocative obscurities of Jorge Luis Borges."

FROM THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: "With Three Trapped Tigers he entered the front rank of Latin American novelists. The book belongs with Cortazar's Hopscotch, Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Donoso's The Obscure Bird of Night."

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: "A remarkable book."

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0330261339
• ISBN 13: 9780330261333
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 494