false <![CDATA[Telex from Cuba: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256058129m/2495094.jpg 2495094 11 <b>An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting first novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading to Castro's revolution, this masterful debut will put Rachel Kushner on the map of American fiction.</b> Rachel Kushner's mother grew up in Cuba in the 1950s, in the United Fruit Company enclave where <i>Telex from Cuba</i> takes place. Calling on a rich trove of family letters, photos, meticulously kept journals, and historical research, Kushner sets free her brilliant imagination in this profoundly resonant story of a world that was paradise for a time and for a few. For half a century, Americans controlled Cuba's sugar and nickel operations -- the country's two most lucrative exports. Between the United Fruit Company's three-hundred-thousand-acre plantation and the nearby Nicaro nickel mines, Americans tended their own fiefdom in Cuba's Oriente Province. Everly Lederer and K. C. Stites come of age in this world. Each has a keen eye for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them. Meanwhile, in faraway Havana, a cabaret dancer and a French agitator with a shameful past become enmeshed in the brewing political underground. When Fidel and Raúl Castro lead a revolt from the mountains just above the Americans' privileged enclave, torching sugarcane fields and recruiting rebels, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the complexities of class and race and the barely disguised brutality that keeps the colony humming. If their parents seem blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what's to come, as Kushner deftly merges the rural and urban dramas. At the time, urgent news was conveyed by telex. Kushner's first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place. 2502411 book 1 7 2008 Telex from Cuba: A Novel total:451|5:51|4:169|3:155|2:56|1:20| 451 1528 979 155 3 2 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 09:18:42 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 09:18:24 -0700 2008 once
However, it was neat to read about this time period, and I have never read ANYTHING about the Cuban revolution. Although it...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Nov 01 12:30:20 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 14:16:14 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 12:30:20 -0700 2008 Rachel Kushner
Historical Fiction
322 pages
copyright: 2008
isbn: 1-4165-6103-x

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An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution—a place that was a paradise for a time and for a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 16:09:28 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 16:22:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 08:41:30 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 08:59:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:58:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:58:25 -0800 2009 "Wonderful reviews have been coming thick and fast for Telex From Cuba, and they're more than well deserved," notes the Washington Post. Drawing on her family's experience in the American enclaves portrayed in the novel, Kushner writes with wisdom and beauty about adolescence, racism, clas...

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