{"product_id":"sacrificio-9781641294850","title":"Sacrificio","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet in Cuba in 1998, \u003ci\u003eSacrificio \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss's son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group \"Los Injected Ones,\" which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Renato goes missing, Rafa's search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city's detritus by Los Injected Ones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse, \u003ci\u003eSacrificio \u003c\/i\u003eis a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnesto Mestre-Reed\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Guant?namo, Cuba, and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Lazarus Rumba\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Second Death of ?nica Aveyano\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Guggenheim Fiction Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow and teaches at Brooklyn College. He has also translated many novels from Spanish, including Laura Esquivel's \u003ci\u003eMalinche\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50661032853778,"sku":"9781641294850","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b118c15c-c640-4b90-a007-d64bbc2e6b75.jpg?v=1744216536","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sacrificio-9781641294850","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}