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Fernando and Celia, a middle-aged Cuban couple, take a cruise to the Caribbean on which each of them becomes infatuated with someone new: Fernando with a mysterious white-haired harpist and Celia with a member of the crew. This story, combined with a parallel plotline about a pair of lovers who tell their tale in letters, is related in alternating first-person narratives.
| Size | | Length: | 115 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 3.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"An insouciantly witty celebration of the mingled folly and grandeur of physical love and its discontents. The best so far from one of Latin America's most impressive recent exports."
McCourt
"In Edith Grossman's easily flowing translation, [this novel] is, like the others..., symbolically and emotionally charged. While the sex may be too brutal and too awash in selfishness for some, the novel is certainly provocative, and it certainly challenges a few cherished assumptions, which is what fiction, at its best, should do."
New York Times Book Review - James Polk (07/16/2000)
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