{"product_id":"sacrificio-paperback","title":"Sacrificio - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnesto Mestre-Reed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in Cuba in 1998, \u003ci\u003eSacrificio \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss's son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group \"Los Injected Ones,\" which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Renato goes missing, Rafa's search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city's detritus by Los Injected Ones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse, \u003ci\u003eSacrificio \u003c\/i\u003eis a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnesto Mestre-Reed\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Guantánamo, Cuba, and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Lazarus Rumba\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Second Death of Única Aveyano\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Guggenheim Fiction Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow and teaches at Brooklyn College. He has also translated many novels from Spanish, including Laura Esquivel's \u003ci\u003eMalinche\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 456\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764868874528,"sku":"9781641294850","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8db59c41364e4827ffc140280253828a.webp?v=1780256896","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sacrificio-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}