The Lazarus Rumba: A Novel

By Ernesto Mestre-Reed and Ernesto Mestre

Book Overview

This extraordinarily ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country beset by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales told in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and grotesque. As intensely political as Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Lazarus Rumba centers around three generations of woman in the Lucientes family and follows the story of Alicia Lucientes as, almost inadvertently, she becomes the most famous dissident on the island.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031226352X
• ISBN13: 9780312263522
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Reading Experience

The Lazarus Rumba is written gorgeously, and the story is at times sweet, sad, passionate, magical. It's a beautiful reading experience.

Brilliant!

Brilliant! There is no other way to categorize this most special novel

A remarkable enthralling novel.

Forget those comparisions to Garcia-Marquez, Mr. Mestre's achievement is his and his alone. A beautiful, tragic, wonderful book that should be cherished for years to come. I can't wait for his next one.

one of the best

The Lazurus Rumba is one of the best I have read in a long time this book is fantastic!

Beautiful Book

Excellent book! In my opinion is a mix of realism and history portraying the image of a true cuban family.