A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto
Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a
hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its
pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young
Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious
connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this
intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.
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