Telex from Cuba

Author: Kushner, Rachel

Brand: VINTAGE

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 336

Release Date: 03-04-2014

Details: Product Description


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.


Review


Rachel Kushner’s debut novel is
an absolute blinder... Like the sea which surrounds Cuba,
Telex From Cuba is ever-shifting, and
it is luminous ―
The Times

If you relish
glittering language that pursues emotional and political truth, you'll be enthralled by
Telex from Cuba... the atmosphere
seethes and crackles... [a]

lush, intoxicating book ―
Independent


Telex from Cuba is
epic and enjoyable: the style is lush and precise; the parties and cookouts, the drinks and affairs are beautiful and poignant, full of the pleasures of wealth overshadowed by loss. -- Anne Enright ―
Guardian


Fascinating and vividly detailed... 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


A piece of fiction quite breathtaking in its assurance […] a beautifully weighted treatise on colonial attitudes, capitalism, racism and the interactions and divisions between cultures and classes -- Billy O'Callaghan ―
Irish Examiner

A
lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel ―
Elle


Kushner evokes a dreamlike paradise... 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

An intriguing, multifaceted portrait of a society in flux -- David Evans ―
Independent on Sunday

Massively compelling… Tough yet tender writing that throbs with history, nostalgia and love ―
Bath Chronicle

It begs for a big-screen adaptation ―
London Magazine

Telex from Cuba is a wonderful debut and essential reading for those who wish to follow the career of one of the best new writers of our generation -- Stephen Joyce ―
Nudge

[Telex From Cuba] proves that this American author is a superstar of the future -- Nick Barley ―
Herald


About the Author


Rachel Kushner is the author of
The Mars Room, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels,
Telex from Cuba and
The Flamethrowers, were both
New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the
New Yorker,
Harper’s and the
Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

EAN: 9780099586999

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English