False War by Álvarez, Carlos Manuel

False War

An ambitious, panoptic novel about exile as both condition and state of being by a major young...
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False War by Álvarez, Carlos Manuel

False War

$26.24

False War

$26.24
Author: Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Format: Paperback
Language: English

An ambitious, panoptic novel about exile as both condition and state of being by a major young Cuban writer

The characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's land. Some of them want to leave and can't, others do leave but never quite get anywhere.

In this multivoiced novel, employing a dazzling range of narrative styles from noir to autofiction, Carlos Manuel Álvarez brings together the stories of many people from all walks of life through a series of interconnected daisy chains. From Havana to Mexico City to Miami, from New York to Paris to Berlin, whether toiling in a barber shop, roaring in Yankee Stadium, lost in the Louvre, intensely competing in a chess hall in Cuba, plotting a theft, or on a junket for émigré dissidents in Berlin, these characters learn that while they may seem to be on the move, in reality they are paralyzed, immersed in a fake war waged with little real passion.

The fractured narrative, filled with extraordinary portraits of ordinary people, reflects the disintegration that comes from being uprooted. At the same time it is full of tenderness, moments of joy and profound release. False War confirms Carlos Manuel Álvarez as one of the indispensable voices of his generation in Latin American letters.

Author: Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.60w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781644453636


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2025
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2025

About the Author

Carlos Manuel Álvarez is the author of The Tribe and The Fallen. He has been included in Granta's "Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists" as well as Bogotá39's best Latin American writers under 40. He lives in New York City.

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her recent translations include Nona Fernández's Voyager and Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires.

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