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National Book Award finalist Cristina Garca delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil. The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the honeymoon suite aninternational adoption lawyer of German descent a colonel who committed atrocities during his countrys long civil war and a Cuban poet who has come with his American wife to adopt a local infant. With each day, their lives become further entangled, resulting in the unexpectedthe clash of histories and the pull of revenge and desire.Cristina Garcas magnificent orchestration of politics, the intimacies of daily life, and the frailty of human nature unfolds in a moving, ambitious, often comic, and unforgettable tale.
National Book Award finalist Cristina Garca delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil. The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the honeymoon suite aninternational adoption lawyer of German descent a colonel who committed atrocities during his countrys long civil... Read More