Dancing to "almendra"

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/26/2007
ISBN: 9780312426736
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 01/27/2008 pg. 20