{"product_id":"call-me-cassandra","title":"Call Me Cassandra by Gala, Marcial","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling.\" --Marcela Valdes, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas.\" --Junot Díaz, author of \u003ci\u003eThis is How You Lose Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTen-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's \u003ci\u003eCall Me Cassandra \u003c\/i\u003etells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli's is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcial Gala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374602017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2021 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2021 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcial Gala\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, a poet, and an architect from Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cathedral \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the Critics' Award and the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012 and was published in English by FSG in 2020. Gala also won the 2018 Ñ Prize of the City of Buenos Aires-Clarín for \u003ci\u003eCall Me Cassandra\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe daughter of Cuban exiles, \u003cb\u003eAnna Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Philadelphia and has been traveling to Cuba since 1999. In addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cathedral \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCall Me Cassandra\u003c\/i\u003e, she has translated the novels of Norberto Fuentes, Leonardo Padura, Guillermo Rosales, and Gonçalo M. Tavares, as well as two collections of nonfiction by Mario Vargas Llosa.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43657343795353,"sku":"9780374602017","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/img_6e84037a-e455-44d6-bf32-ff0271d5af64.jpg?v=1724816963","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/call-me-cassandra","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}