Description
Selected as one of The Waterstones Eleven, for the best fiction debuts of 2013, Pig's Foot is a dazzling novel of revolution, family secrets, love and identity across four generations
About the Author
Carlos Acosta was born in Havana in 1973 and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the American Ballet Theater and the Royal Ballet, and has danced as a guest artist all over the world, winning numerous international awards. He is the author of the autobiography No Way Home. www.carlosacosta.com Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He is also the translator of Tomas Eloy Martinez's Purgatory and Marcelo Figueras's Kamchatka.
Reviews
Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless * Kate Saunders, The Times *
Pig's Foot is as catchy as a piece of Cuban music, defers to Latin America's literary tradition and shimmers with a likable swagger all its own * Eileen Battersby, Irish Times *
Vibrant * Sunday Telegraph *
Elegant and seductive * Guardian *
A little pressure cooker of a novel * Daily Express *
Spellbinding ... Acosta does for prose what he has done for the ballet, bringing to it a muscular sexiness and a rural saltiness * Independent on Sunday *
An exuberantly enjoyable tale * Guardian *
An enormously warm-hearted novel: tearful at times, triumphant at others * Mail on Sunday *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408833728
Author Carlos Acosta
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 249g