Cancion de Rachel / Rachel's Song - Softcover

Barnet, Miguel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8492663510 ISBN 13: 9788492663514

Publisher: Libros Del Asteroide, 2012

Synopsis

Set in Cuba during the 1920s, this novel recounts the eventful life of a cabaret dancer named Rachel. The protagonist is an actress, a dancer, and a heartbreaker who takes readers on a guidedtour through the different stages of her past, from the filthy theaters, cabarets, and circuses in which she debuted, to the mythical Alhambra Theater in which she reached the height of her career. In addition to Rachel's narrative, the voices ofstagehands, journalists, friends, enemies, and gossipsdepict an accurate portrait of the customs during the Cuban belle epoque.

Ambientada en Cuba durante los anos 20, esta novela cuenta la azarosa existencia de una cabaretera llamada Rachel. La protagonista es una actriz, bailarina y rompecorazones que acompana al lector en un recorrido a traves de todos los escenarios de su memoria, desde los cochambrosos teatrillos, cabarets y circos en los que debuto hasta el mitico teatro Alhambra en el que triunfio. Junto alanarracion de Rachel, las voces detramoyistas, periodistas, amigos, enemigos y chismosos componen un verdadero retrato de las costumbres de la belle epoque cubana."

About this title

Product Description:

Rare book

Review:

"A personal, poetic history of a Cuba that no longer exists." Publishers Weekly, on the English-language edition"

"Provide[s] an unconscious indictment of the society that would later fall to Castro's uprising." New York Times, on the English-language edition"

About this edition

• Publisher: Libros Del Asteroide
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 8492663510
• ISBN 13: 9788492663514
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142