Sacrificio
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- Synopsis
- 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 desperately wish to change.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781641293655
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781641293648
- Publisher:
- Soho Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/06/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Ernesto Mestre-Reed
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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