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Telex from Cuba

Rachel Kushner

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English
RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
01 February 2014
The New York Times bestselling debut novel by the author of the Folio Prize shortlisted The Flamethrowers

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Fidel and Raol Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.

Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
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Imprint:   RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   238g
ISBN:   9780099586999
ISBN 10:   0099586991
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Rachel Kushner's second novel, The Flamethrowers was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and was one of the New York Times Top Ten books of 2013. Named Time's Most Popular Book among Critics, The Flamethrowers topped the Best Book lists of 2013, including those of Time, Vogue, Oprah, Slate, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Observer, The Times, the Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Scotsman, the Herald and the Evening Standard. New York magazine declared it the number one book of 2013. Kushner's New York Times best-selling debut novel, Telex From Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times Notable Book. Kushner is the only writer ever nominated for a National Book Award for both a first and second novel. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, The Paris Review, and Artforum. She is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Reviews for Telex from Cuba

A lush, meticulous, cinematic debut novel Elle A pure treat from the cover to the very last page Washington Post Mutli-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images... Kushner has fashioned a story that will linger like a whiff of decadent Colony perfume New York Times Book Review Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before San Francisco Chronicle A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book Seattle Times


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