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Starred Review on September 1, 2017 | Top World Fiction for Fall
Distinguished Cuban author Cabrera Infante (Three Trapped Tigers) initially supported the revolution but eventually went into exile. This account of his final months in Cuba, found among his possessions after his death, could be called autobiographical fiction or fictionalized autobiography but either way is insightful and engrossing. Informed that his mother is gravely ill, the protagonist rushes home from the Cuban Embassy in Brussels to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More