Description
From the author of the award-winning The Black Cathedral, a darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, who believes himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology.
About the Author
Marcial Gala is a novelist, a poet, and an architect from Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. The Black Cathedral received the Critics' Award and the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012 and was published in English by FSG in 2020. Gala also won the 2018 N Prize of the City of Buenos Aires-Clarin for Call Me Cassandra. He lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos. The daughter of Cuban exiles, Anna Kushner was born in Philadelphia and has been traveling to Cuba since 1999. In addition to The Black Cathedral and Call Me Cassandra, she has translated the novels of Norberto Fuentes, Leonardo Padura, Guillermo Rosales, and Goncalo M. Tavares, as well as two collections of nonfiction by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Book Information
ISBN 9780374602017
Author Marcial Gala
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Weight(grams) 352g
Dimensions(mm) 217mm * 145mm * 24mm