Reinbou

"“Dense and exciting . . . Cabiya evokes the Dominican Republic’s heat and passion with frank and poetic prose and the excitement of a spy thriller. This is teeming with life.” —Publishers Weekly “Blow-by-blow action sequences, suitcases containing gold bars, and a framing story in which the narrator reminds his distracted audience to pay attention all give the novel a rollicking, cinematic quality. (It was released as a film in 2017.) But the underlying truths about Dominican history that award-winning Cabiya excavates are serious indeed.” —Brendan Driscoll, Booklist “Cabiya—a Puerto Rican writer who lives in the Dominican Republic—turns a military thriller about the 1965 Dominican civil war into a contemporary fairy tale about a young boy whose innocent goodness has the power to change lives. [...] A sometimes angry, sometimes sardonic, but ultimately optimistic view of humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews “[Reinbou is a] sweeping historical novel of the Dominican Republic’s civil war . . . featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, rendered in energetic prose . . . Essential for an intimate understanding of the history of the DR and the US intervention.” —JR Ramakrishnan, Electric Literature “Provocative, irreverent and magisterial. A tale at once epic and satirical in which the defeated, in a Caribbean suffering relentless intervention, are the only heroes.” —Luis Negrón, author of Mundo Cruel “Cabiya is pure genius . . . funny, provocative, unsettling, all at once.” —Rita Indiana, author of Tentacle “One of the most respected and prolific writers living in the Caribbean today.” —Karen Van Drie, executive director of Global Literature in Libraries Initiative “Pedro Cabiya is an incredible intellectual and literary force in the Caribbean letters.” —Mayra Santos-Febres, author of Our Lady of the Night “In the style of Elmore Leonard or Quentin Tarantino, Cabiya has reclaimed the April War for literature and colored it with his obsessions. Employing a diverse cast of spies, constitutionalists, lunatics, heroes, martyrs, traitors, torturers, sadists, femme fatales, revolutionaries, historians, twins, and pedophiles, he reveals the communicating vessels linking three generations marked by war and the abuse of power.” —Frank Báez, author of The End of the World Came to My Neighborhood “Instead of focusing on the heroes, founding fathers, political parties and epic exploits of the great machista pageant that is [the Dominican Republic’s] national history, Cabiya attends to the women, the children and the popular classes who, with their labor and their love have made it possible for life and the illusion of living to endure, despite state terror and an economy that looms over them every minute of every day. Daily life takes center stage in this story, which Cabiya depicts in minute detail and with great sensitivity, humor and irony born of tremendous affection for the people who make a country... Perhaps what best summarizes Cabiya's perspective is this simple observation noted in the novel: 'Everything is tiny in a shack, except it's inhabitants.'""  —Juan Duchesne Winter, author of Gotcha"