TY  - BOOK
AU  - Álvarez,Carlos Manuel
AU  - Wynne,Frank
TI  - The fallen: a novel 
SN  - 9781644450253
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Graywolf Press
KW  - Families
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Dystopian fiction
N1  - Translation of: Los Caídos; Originally published: Mexico : Sexto Piso, 2018
N2  - A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish control over the household to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in a state-owned tourist hotel. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary, a die-hard Fidelista who is sickened by the corruption he perceives all around him. As each member of the family narrates seemingly quotidian and overlapping events, they grow increasingly at odds for reasons that remain elusive to them--each of them holding and concealing their own secrets.In meticulously charting the disintegration of a single family, The Fallen offers a poignant reflection on contemporary Cuba and the clash of the ardent idealism of the old guard with the jaded pragmatism of the young. This is a startling and incisive debut by a radiant new voice in Latin American literature
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