Outcast is a smart, multi-voiced, savagely unsentimental Cuban crime novel that combines cultural critique, personal discovery and explosive violence. Elliot Steil, the son of a Cuban mother and a U.S. labourer stationed on the island before the revolution, works as a down-and-out school teacher in Havana. Quietly resigned to the tedium of his simple life, Elliot - like many of his fellow Havanans - has put any hopes of a better future to one side. But his aspirations are rekindled when he is offered a 'once-in-a-lifetime' ...
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Outcast is a smart, multi-voiced, savagely unsentimental Cuban crime novel that combines cultural critique, personal discovery and explosive violence. Elliot Steil, the son of a Cuban mother and a U.S. labourer stationed on the island before the revolution, works as a down-and-out school teacher in Havana. Quietly resigned to the tedium of his simple life, Elliot - like many of his fellow Havanans - has put any hopes of a better future to one side. But his aspirations are rekindled when he is offered a 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity by a mysterious visitor to the island who claims to know his late father. When the stranger quickly turns from saviour to would-be assassin, Elliot finds himself perilously immersed in the waters of the Florida Straits, face to face with a past that he has spent most of his adult life trying to forget. Surviving the ordeal, Elliot embarks on a search for the man who betrayed him - and on a journey of self-discovery that draws him deep into the deceit and corruption of the Miami underworld.
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No Jacket. New York. 1999. Akashic Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1888451076. 219 pages. paperback. Cover & author photo by Ernesto Monteavaro. keywords: Mystery Cuba Caribbean Literature. DESCRIPTION-The first Cuban crime novel to be written in English and published in the United States, OUTCAST is a smart, multi-voiced, savagely unsentimental tale that blends cultural critique, personal discovery, and explosive violence to reveal the callous, impersonal dysfunction of both contemporary Cuban socialism and its self-congratulatory free-market alternative In Miami. The son of a Cuban mother and a U.S. laborer stationed on the island before the revolution, the novel's protagonist, Elliot Steil, is a down-and-out school teacher in Havana. Quietly resigned to the tedium and simplicity of his life, Elliot has, like many of his fellow Havanans, systematically distanced himself from all aspirations for a better future. His hopes suddenly resurface when he is offered a ‘once-in-a-lifetime' chance to escape his current situation by a mysterious visitor to the island who claims to be a friend of Elliot's late father. When the stranger quickly turns from savior to would-be assassin, Elliot finds himself perilously immersed in the waters of the Florida Straits and in the images of a past that he had spent most of his adult life trying to forget. He survives the ordeal, but his journey to find the man who betrayed him and to discover the mystery of his bicultural past lure him into a tangle of deceit and corruption in the underworld of Miami. inventory #28373.
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