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Lädt ... Sacrificio (2022. Auflage)von Ernesto Mestre-Reed (Autor)
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HTML:Set in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government. Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss??s son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group ??Los Injected Ones,? which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II??s upcoming visit. When Renato goes missing, Rafa??s search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city??s detritus by Los Injected Ones. A novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse, Sacrificio is a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they despera Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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