Dancing to Almendra: A Novel by Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman

Dancing to Almendra: A Novel

Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman

272 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction historical mystery 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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