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Dancing to "Almendra" (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312426736)
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xA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.Author: Montero Mayra
ISBN-10: 0312426739
ISBN-13: 9780312426736
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 12/26/2007
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/27/2008 pg. 20
By Montero Mayra
xMayra Montero is the author of a collection of short stories and of eight novels, including The Messenger, The Last Night I Spent with You, and Captain of the Sleepers. She was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico, where she writes a weekly column in El Nuevo Dia newspaper.
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