Lazarus Rumba : A Novel

A modern tale rooted in recent historical events but filtered through a patiently unfolding storytelling style that pays homage to "The Arabian Nights, " this ambitious novel centers around three generations of women in a Cuban family during the time of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Map.

Genealogies

xv

Characters

xvii

Map of Cuba

xx

Prologue: One Dance

1

(4)

Book One: A Widow's Grief: An Old Tale

Chapter One

The Rumbas in Beethoven's Violin Concerto

5

(20)

A Serpent's Spit

25

(11)

The Widow's Bathwater

36

(6)

Chapter Two

Swimming Without Getting Wet

42

(3)

Invisible Butterflies

45

(5)

Monday Cola

50

(4)

The Sermon of the Seven Kisses

54

(6)

Chapter Three

Berta His Beloved

60

(6)

Nothing More or Less

66

(5)

Guava Milk

71

(6)

The Meat of Castrated Goats

77

(4)

To the Mountain!

81

(10)

Mingo's Dreams Before Dying

91

(6)

Book Two: How the Dead Come Back: The Tale as Rumba

Chapter Four

The Camarita Flirts with Eternity

97

(10)

Senor Sariel

107

(20)

In the Room Lit with a Red Bulb

127

(2)

Carmen Canastas's Tangled New Year's Tale

129

(16)

A Shroud of Papaya Leaves

145

(12)

Chapter Five

Atila and His Resurrected

157

(15)

The Man Who Played His Bones

172

(10)

The Wall & the Prayer-Feathers

182

(7)

Father Jacinto's Great War of the Americas

189

(14)

Demon or Saint

203

(7)

Chapter Six

Seven Against Him

210

(9)

Two Trials

219

(31)

Arrival

250

(13)

The Minister's Visit

263

(6)

Book Three: Exile and the Kingdom of Forgetfulness: A Tale in Tongues

Chapter Seven

Wordeaters

269

(20)

The Isle of Pains

289

(11)

An Odd Request

300

(3)

A Repeated Tale

303

(16)

The Devils in the Clock

319

(6)

Not Like a Prodigal

325

(4)

The Tale of the Tub (Prologue)

329

(18)

Dinner for the New Man

347

(8)

High in the Banyan

355

(9)

An Annunciation

364

(4)

Chapter Eight

Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: The Thirty-Mile Swim

368

(9)

The Name of the One That He Once Loved That She Once Loved

377

(1)

Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: At Lot's Door

377

(18)

Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: The Passion of Comandante Federico Sanchez

395

(17)

Monologue of Triste the Contortionist: The Tale of the Tub

412

(9)

Chapter Nine

Assassination as Birth

421

(15)

Within Alicia's Bohio, in the Colony of the Newer Man

436

(7)

The Ghost in the Yellow Scarf

443

(10)

The Bakery Administrator's Daughter

453

(13)

Chapter Ten

Lamentations

466

(19)

Epilogue: Two Dances

485

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Lazarus Rumba : A Novel

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