Dancing to "Almendra" A Novel

Mayra Montero is the author of a collection of short stories and of eight novels, including The Messenger, The Last Night I Spent with You, and Captain of the Sleepers.  She was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico, where she writes a weekly column in El Nuevo Dia newspaper.

"I devoured it with absolute delight, and I'm looking forward to reading it again, and to reading anything Montero might come up with next."--The New York Times Book Review

"Montero exploits true crime, romance, family drama, cabaret, and even danzón. . . . Her new novel is a hell of a song."--San Francisco Chronicle

"[Montero] has crafted a story of pre-revolutionary Havana that crackles with violence, mystery, and a truly eccentric view of love.  Imagine Raymond Carver crossed with Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love."--O, The Oprah Magazine

"An extremely stylish novel . . . Montero is an energetic writer and Grossman's translation renders her prose into a wry, bawdy, delicious rhythm. . . . Here is a story of [Montero's] native country, marching toward the future one murder, one one-night stand, one dead hippo at a time.  It's even more fun than it sounds."--The Star-Ledger (Newark)

"Montero has delivered a well-written, cinematic story that fairly steps off the page.  Think Chinatown set in the late 1950s, pre-Castro Cuba."--The Plain Dealer 

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