Description - The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs thecrónica form - a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelisticforms - to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the re-establishment of diplomatic relationswith the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement.
Unique, edgy and stylishly written, The Tribe shows a society in flux, featuring sportsmen in exile, artists, nurses,underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting tomake their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, dealers from the black market, as well as revelers andpolicemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Languagenovelists.
'There is magic in these pages...[T]his book tells the actual story of Cuba as it exists today.'- Jon Lee Anderson
'Álvarez does not try to instruct or speculate. He does not write on whether the Revolution succeeded or failed. He doesnot determine whether the leader was a hero or a tyrant. His book is not an explanation: it is ... the history of a countrytold through its people.'- María Teresa Hernández, AP News
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