Telex from Cuba
by Rachel Kushner
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Pub Date Jun 05 2014 | Archive Date Apr 28 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
Fidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.
Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.
Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers in the UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada
Advance Praise
‘A pure treat from the cover to the very last page’
Washington Post
‘Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before’
San Francisco Chronicle
‘Multi-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images’
New York Times Book Review
‘A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel’ Elle
‘A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book’
Seattle Times
‘With its sharp detail and precisely drawn characters, Telex from Cuba offers a compelling look at a paradise corrupted’
People
Marketing Plan
Hot on the heels of the Vintage edition of Kushner's The Flamethrowers, this is her first novel, never before published in the UK
Kushner
will be visiting the UK and Ireland in April to promote publication,
appearing at the Cuirt Festival in Galway before heading to London
Sweepingly
ambitious, perfect for fans of Junot Diaz , Jennifer Egan & Jeffrey
Eugenides, and with thriller elements for readers of William Boyd and
Graham Greene
Hailed by Jonathan Franzen as 'a thrilling and prodigious novelist', Kushner's star is on the rise - Donna Tartt praised Telex From Cuba in a recent interview in the New York Times
The Flamethrowers was named in the Best Books of 2013 lists in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Observer, The Times, the Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Scotsman, the Herald, and the Evening Standard
The Flamethrowers was selected for the Waterstones January Book Group
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448182329 |
| PRICE | £9.98 (GBP) |
