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Dancing to Almendra A Novel
Author: Mayra Montero
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, Joaquín Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections bet...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374102777
ISBN-10: 0374102775
Publication Date: 1/23/2007
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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