The twin protagonists of this rivetting novel emerge from the Cuban countryside like Caribbean Tristans and Isoldes, bound to each other in an eternal embrace that neither politics, nor geography, nor the ill-will of family and society can break....
A first novel explores the bittersweet relationship between a Caribbean Tristan and Isolde, challenging notions of good and evil and revealing the pain of isolation regardless of whether it is Cuban, Latin, or human. Reprint....
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Gay/Lesbian Studies. A corral of unique characters populate this rhapsodic, magically real tour de force: a hydrocephalic child with uncanny spiritual powers, a doctor whose greed precipitates a descent into his worst ...