Bibliograph

Sacrificio, Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Type

Label

Sacrificio, Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Sacrificio

Oclc number

1289308273

Responsibility statement

Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Summary

Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a cafe. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss's son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group "Los Injected Ones," which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro governement during Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit. When Renato goes missing. Rafa's search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city's detritus by Los Injected Ones

Target audience

adult

Classification