{"product_id":"call-me-cassandra-9781250863003","title":"Call Me Cassandra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling.\" --Marcela Valdes, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas.\" --Junot Díaz, author of \u003ci\u003eThis is How You Lose Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, who believes himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTen-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's \u003ci\u003eCall Me Cassandra \u003c\/i\u003etells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli's is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcial Gala\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, a poet, and an architect from Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e received the Premio de la Crítica Literaria and the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012 and was published in English by FSG in 2020. Gala also won the 2018 Ñ Prize of the City of Buenos Aires-Clarín for \u003ci\u003eCall Me Cassandra\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e, the daughter of Cuban exiles, was born in Philadelphia and has been traveling to Cuba since 1999. In addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCall Me Cassandra\u003c\/i\u003e, she has translated the novels of Norberto Fuentes, Leonardo Padura, Guillermo Rosales, and Gonçalo M. Tavares, as well as two collections of nonfiction by Mario Vargas Llosa.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646202482962,"sku":"9781250863003","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f8b1e7e-1207-4e78-9e6f-87fbbe98a49f.jpg?v=1733171985","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/call-me-cassandra-9781250863003","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}