Overview

Eliseo Alberto's award-winning Caracol Beach combines the passionate imagination of magic realism with the plotting of a thriller (and a modicum of farce). The result is a literary tour de force.

Beto Milanes, the night watchman at a graveyard in the Florida resort town of Caracol Beach, is a guilt-ridden Cuban war veteran. Tormented by memories and hallucinations, he yearns to die but is unable to take his own life. Instead, he decides to force someone-anyone-to kill him. That decision sets in motion a night of violence that draws an odd assortment of characters into Beto's orbit. In scenes that range from the jungles of Angola to a seedy Florida bar, Alberto explores war, madness, exile, and the redemptive power of love.

Translated by Edith Grossman.

ISBN-13

9780375705069

ISBN-10

0375705066

Weight

0.60 Pounds

Dimensions

5.19 x 0.69 x 8.00 In

List Price

$25.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Pages

304 pages

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published On

2001-11-13



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