Dancing to "Almendra" by Mayra Montero

Dancing to "Almendra"

Mayra Montero with Edith Grossman (Translator)

264 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceHavana, 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 t...

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