Dancing to "Almendra"
1st American ed.
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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
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedancingtoalmendr00mont
- ISBN-100374102775
- ISBN-139780374102777
- Library of Congress Control Number2006012552
- OCLC Control Number67383708
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24962677M
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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