Maximo, a Cuban immigrant, passes his days in Miami's Domino Park refining his elaborate jokes - like the one about a mongrel who comes to the States looking for love and luck. His sleepless nights he spends struggling to recall the precise shade of his dead wife's eyes, and reliving the hardships he and she faced together on their arrival in America. In these interlinked short stories, Ana Menendez introduces us to a cast of characters young and old, and to the island with its fragrant streets, passionate music and fields ...
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Maximo, a Cuban immigrant, passes his days in Miami's Domino Park refining his elaborate jokes - like the one about a mongrel who comes to the States looking for love and luck. His sleepless nights he spends struggling to recall the precise shade of his dead wife's eyes, and reliving the hardships he and she faced together on their arrival in America. In these interlinked short stories, Ana Menendez introduces us to a cast of characters young and old, and to the island with its fragrant streets, passionate music and fields of cane that compels their imaginations. Richly sensual, full of observations that catch at the heart, this is writing of rare distinction and storytelling power, and marks the arrival of a major international voice.
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Add this copy of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd to cart. $17.60, like new condition, Sold by Marlowes Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferny Hills, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 2001 by Review Headline Book Pubishing.
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As New in As New jacket. 229 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. This Is A Hynotic Evocation Of A Homeland Lost, And The Fruits Of Exile. Jealous Husbands And Wives, Dissillusioned Children And Old Dreamers, All Have Tales To Tell Of Living In A Country Not Their Own-and Of The Island, With Its Fragrant Streets And Passionate Music, That Compels Their Imaginations.
Add this copy of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by Waverley Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by GROVE PRESS..
