Los gusanos
Subtitle: a novel
By: John Sayles.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
Subjects: Cuban Americans -- Fiction; Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction
Description: In 1981 Miami, exiled Cuban Marta de la Pena is beautiful, religious and obsessed with conquering Cuba via an odd assortment of would-be guerrillas. As the story unfolds, Marta's family story comes to light, where her father Scipio lives through the sweep of Cuban history toward Castro's revolution and the flight of the family to the United States. Marta remembers the death of her brother Ambrosio, who was killed in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion 20 years earlier Now Scipio is a mute, ill relic of his former violent self and Marta's brother Blas becomes a simple criminal where he could have been a revolutionary. Marta is determined to claim revenge.