{"product_id":"telex-from-cuba-9781416561040","title":"Telex from Cuba","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe debut novel by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called \"shimmering\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), \"multilayered and absorbing\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"gorgeously written\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoung Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom--three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them--the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Havana, a thousand kilometers and a world away from the American colony, a cabaret dancer meets a French agitator named Christian de La Mazière, whose seductive demeanor can't mask his shameful past. Together they become enmeshed in the brewing political underground. When Fidel and Raúl Castro lead a revolt from the mountains above the cane plantation, torching the sugar and kidnapping a boat full of \"yanqui\" revelers, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming. Though their parents remain blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what is to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKushner's first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Kushner is the author of \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, her latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd, \u003c\/i\u003eher acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Rachel K. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644546421010,"sku":"9781416561040","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b5d216b-e6f9-499f-8aac-9ed23b028ef9.jpg?v=1733114207","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/telex-from-cuba-9781416561040","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}