Title: The Lazarus Rumba
Description: A magic-realism novel on the Cuban Revolution. The cast includes a revolutionary intent on creating the New Man, an opponent jailed for being too fluent in English, considered a counter-revolutionary activity, and a man who turns into a fish and is eaten by a cat.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, Cuba, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Cuba
Time periods: 1959-