Dancing to "Almendra"
By: Mayra Montero ; translated by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780374102777
Subjects: Mafia; Fiction
Work titles: Son de Almendra
Description: From the Publisher: 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.