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Caracol Beach

Caracol Beach

Alberto, Eliseo
Grossman, Edith

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0375705066
ISBN13: 9780375705069
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 13 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.21 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
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.

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