Author

Contributions

  • Grossman, Edith, 1936- - Contributor

Publication

2007 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

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and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC863/.64
  • LCCPQ7440.M56 S6613 2007

Description

From the Publisher: 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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