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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/04/2014
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ISBN: 9780099586999
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Length: 336 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 234g
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RRP: £9.99
FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
Fidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.
Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.
Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/04/2014
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ISBN: 9780099586999
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Length: 336 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 234g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Rachel Kushner’s debut novel is an absolute blinder... Like the sea which surrounds Cuba, Telex From Cuba is ever-shifting, and it is luminous"
The Times
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"If you relish glittering language that pursues emotional and political truth, you'll be enthralled by Telex from Cuba... the atmosphere seethes and crackles... [a] lush, intoxicating book"
Independent
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"Telex from Cuba is epic and enjoyable: the style is lush and precise; the parties and cookouts, the drinks and affairs are beautiful and poignant, full of the pleasures of wealth overshadowed by loss."
Anne Enright, Guardian
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"Fascinating and vividly detailed... You can almost feel the heat radiating from the page: the air is mosquito-thick and tainted with a nickel oxide haze, the tropical landscape a character in its own right"
Observer
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"A piece of fiction quite breathtaking in its assurance […] a beautifully weighted treatise on colonial attitudes, capitalism, racism and the interactions and divisions between cultures and classes"
Billy O'Callaghan, Irish Examiner
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"A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel"
Elle
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"Kushner evokes a dreamlike paradise... A poignant tale"
Antonia Charlesworth, Big Issue
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"[Kushner's] cleverly counterposed registers and nuanced explanation of the way we make and remake ourselves elevates her book beyond the standard historical romp"
David Annand, Sunday Telegraph
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"Detail-packed prose"
Glasgow Herald
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"Deeply evocative... A fascinating and vividly detailed portrait of the country"
Natasha Tripney, Observer
