{"product_id":"black-cathedral-paperback","title":"Black Cathedral - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcial Gala\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold by a chorus of narrators--including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer--who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another's stories, Marcial Gala's \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcial Gala\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, poet, and architect from Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cathedra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003el \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the Critics' Award and the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012 and was published in English translation by FSG in 2020. Gala also won the 2018 Ñ Prize of the City of Buenos Aires-Clarín for his novel \u003ci\u003eCall Me Cassandra\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe daughter of Cuban exiles, \u003cb\u003eAnna Kushner \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Philadelphia and has been traveling to Cuba since 1999. She has translated the novels of Norberto Fuentes, Leonardo Padura, Guillermo Rosales, and Gonçalo M. Tavares, as well as two collections of non-fiction by Mario Vargas Llosa.\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759907209504,"sku":"9781250785657","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a62f1d25605370acfc3d42232728deed.webp?v=1780165702","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/black-cathedral-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}