{"product_id":"telex-from-cuba-paperback","title":"Telex from Cuba - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called \"shimmering\" (The New Yorker), \"multilayered and absorbing\" (The New York Times Book Review), and \"gorgeously written\" (Kirkus Reviews).Young 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. In 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. Kushner's first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Kushner is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd, \u003c\/i\u003eher acclaimed essay collection, and internationally acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room, The Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Rachel K\u003c\/i\u003e. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, 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 have been translated into twenty-six languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693489131583,"sku":"9781416561040","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7719d7e94654d0b9731914a4364b81d1.webp?v=1764999106","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/telex-from-cuba-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}