Dancing to Almendra by Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman

Dancing to Almendra

Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman

264 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious slow-paced

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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 Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrat...

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