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Dancing to "Almendra"

Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafiacapo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover thezoo story, JoaquIn Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mobster's when asecretivezookeeper whispers to him that he "knows too much." In exchange for a promise to introduce the keeper to his idol, the film star George Raft, now the host of the Capri Casino, JoaquIn gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.The love story is, of course, another mystery. Told by Yolanda, a beautiful ex-circus performer now working for the famed cabaret San Souci, it interleaves through JoaquIn's underworld investigations, eventually revealing a family secret deeper even than Havana's brilliantly evoked enigmas.In Dancing to "Almendra," Mayra Montero has created an ardent and thrilling tale of innocence lost, of Havana's secret world that is "the basis for the clamor of the city," and of the end of a violent eraof fantastic characters and extravagant crimes. Based on the true history of a bewitching city anditsdenizens, Almendra is the latest "triumph" (Library Journal) from one of Latin America's mostimpassioned and intoxicating voices.

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  • "En 1957, à La Havane, un hippopotame a été abattu aux abords du parc zoologique. Son assassinat est mystérieux et n'est pas sans rapport avec un autre fait divers : la mort du gangster Umberto Anastasia, dans un salon de coiffure de New York. Le jeune Joaquin Porrata mène l'enquête."
  • "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."
  • "Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafiacapo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover thezoo story, JoaquIn Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mobster's when asecretivezookeeper whispers to him that he "knows too much." In exchange for a promise to introduce the keeper to his idol, the film star George Raft, now the host of the Capri Casino, JoaquIn gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.The love story is, of course, another mystery. Told by Yolanda, a beautiful ex-circus performer now working for the famed cabaret San Souci, it interleaves through JoaquIn's underworld investigations, eventually revealing a family secret deeper even than Havana's brilliantly evoked enigmas.In Dancing to "Almendra," Mayra Montero has created an ardent and thrilling tale of innocence lost, of Havana's secret world that is "the basis for the clamor of the city," and of the end of a violent eraof fantastic characters and extravagant crimes. Based on the true history of a bewitching city anditsdenizens, Almendra is the latest "triumph" (Library Journal) from one of Latin America's mostimpassioned and intoxicating voices."@en
  • "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 and mafioso's deaths in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love."
  • "Novela ubicada en La Habana en los años 1950s acerca de la guerra de la mafia por el control de los casinos."@es
  • "A novel by the Cuban American author. Set in Havana in the 1950s, a story centered on the Mafia war for control of casinos."
  • "A novel by the Cuban American author. Set in Havana in the 50's a story centered on the Mafia war for control of casinos."
  • "El capo mafioso Umberto Anastasia acaba de ser asesinado en Nueva York. Corre el mes de octubre de 1957, y se avecina una guerra por el control de los casinos habaneros. Joaquín es un joven periodista que decide investigar las conexiones de importantes personajes cubanos con el bajo mundo. En su búsqueda, comienza a frecuentar a un cuidador de fieras de zoológico, quien aparenta conocer las claves de una macabra conspiración, y se enamora de una mujer de circo, que le revelará un mundo de posibilidades trucadas: el desencanto como juego de espejos y el doble fondo de los amores imposibles.--Desde la descripción de la editorial."
  • "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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  • "Translations"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Novels"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Littérature cubaine"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Novel"

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  • "Son de Almendra <engl.&gt"
  • "Son de Almendra"@es
  • "Son de Almendra"
  • "Bolero in de nacht"
  • "Dancing to "Almendra""
  • "Dancing to "Almendra""@en
  • "Pom rak rabam sanghān"
  • "Dancing to Almendra"
  • "At danse til Almendra"@da
  • "ปมรักระบำสังหาร"
  • "Son de almendra"
  • "Son de almendra"@es
  • "Dancing to 'Almendra'"
  • "Dancing to "almendra" a novel"@en
  • "La Havane, 1957 : roman"

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