Caracol Beach
By: Eliseo Alberto ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Edition: 1st American ed
Publisher: Alfred Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Cuban Americans -- Florida -- Fiction; Angola -- History -- Civil War, 1975-2002 -- Participation, Cuban -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Caracol Beach.
Description: "On the outskirts of the quiet resort community of Caracol Beach, its unlikeliest - and perhaps most dangerous - resident plots his own demise. A Cuban veteran of the war in Angola, the sole survivor of an ambush that killed off the rest of his platoon, Beto Milanes has for eighteen years been racked with guilt and grief and tormented by terrible visions. Determined to end his suffering but unable to take his own life, he sets out to find someone who will do it for him.

So begins a night of madness, violence, and, ultimately, redemption. Drawn into the soldier's nightmare world are an improbable group of men and women, whose lives will never again be the same: an aging police chief with a penchant for pizza; a foulmouthed prostitute; a transvestite with a killer judo chop; a beautiful student haunted by her own ghosts; and two ill-fated would-be heroes."--BOOK JACKET.