Rachel Kushner’s debut novel is<b> an absolute blinder</b>... Like the sea which surrounds Cuba, <i>Telex From Cuba</i> is ever-shifting, and <b>it is luminous</b>

The Times

If you relish <b>glittering </b>language that pursues emotional and political truth, you'll be enthralled by <i>Telex from Cuba... </i>the atmosphere <b>seethes and crackles</b>... [a]<b> </b><b>lush, intoxicating</b> book

Independent

<i>Telex from Cuba</i> is<b> epic and enjoyable: the style is lush and precise</b>; the parties and cookouts, the drinks and affairs are beautiful and poignant, full of the pleasures of wealth overshadowed by loss.

- Anne Enright, Guardian

Se alle

<b>Fascinating and vividly detailed</b>... You can almost feel the heat radiating from the page: the air is mosquito-thick and tainted with a nickel oxide haze, the tropical landscape a character in its own right

Observer

<b>A piece of fiction quite breathtaking in its assurance</b> […] a beautifully weighted treatise on colonial attitudes, capitalism, racism and the interactions and divisions between cultures and classes

- Billy O'Callaghan, Irish Examiner

A <b>lush, meticulous, cinematic</b> debut novel

Elle

<b>Kushner evokes a dreamlike paradise</b>... A poignant tale

- Antonia Charlesworth, Big Issue

[Kushner's] cleverly counterposed registers and nuanced explanation of the way we make and remake ourselves elevates her book beyond the standard historical romp

- David Annand, Sunday Telegraph

Detail-packed prose

Glasgow Herald

Deeply evocative... A fascinating and vividly detailed portrait of the country

- Natasha Tripney, Observer

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past. Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
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FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.
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The New York Times bestselling debut novel by the author of the Folio Prize shortlisted The Flamethrowers

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099586999
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
238 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Rachel Kushner is the author of The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.