Lady Matador's Hotel
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National Book Award finalist Cristina Garc?a delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil. The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop; a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the honeymoon suite; an international adoption lawyer of German descent; a colonel who committed atrocities during his country's long civil war; and a Cuban poet who has come with his American wife to adopt a local infant. With each day, their lives become further entangled, resulting in the unexpected--the clash of histories and the pull of revenge and desire. Cristina Garc?a's magnificent orchestration of politics, the intimacies of daily life, and the frailty of human nature unfolds in a moving, ambitious, often comic, and unforgettable tale.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1439181756
ISBN13:9781439181751
Release Date:January 2012
Publisher:Scribner Book Company
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.46 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"
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