National Book Award finalist Cristina Garcia 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; an international adoption lawyer of German descent; a
colonel who committed atrocities during his country's 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 unexpected--the clash of histories and
the pull of revenge and desire. Cristina Garcia's 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.
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