9780374118013-0374118019-The Black Cathedral: A Novel

The Black Cathedral: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780374118013
ISBN-10: 0374118019
Author: Marcial Gala
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374118013
ISBN-10: 0374118019
Author: Marcial Gala
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 224 pages

Summary

The Black Cathedral: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780374118013 and ISBN-10: 0374118019), written by authors Marcial Gala, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Black Cathedral: A Novel (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.43.

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Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate

The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem.

In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral.

Told by a chorus of narrators―including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer―who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away.

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