Call Me Cassandra by Gala, Marcial

Call Me Cassandra

"Dazzling. --Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A spellbinding novel by one of the...
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Author: Marcial Gala
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Call Me Cassandra by Gala, Marcial

Call Me Cassandra

$58.90

Call Me Cassandra

$58.90
Author: Marcial Gala
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"Dazzling. --Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas. --Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her

Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra.

Moving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli's is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.

Author: Marcial Gala
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374602017


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2021 pg. 7
Publishers Weekly 11/01/2021
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2021
Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 20
Shelf Awareness 01/04/2022

About the Author

Marcial Gala is a novelist, a poet, and an architect from Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. The Black Cathedral received the Critics' Award and the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012 and was published in English by FSG in 2020. Gala also won the 2018 Ñ Prize of the City of Buenos Aires-Clarín for Call Me Cassandra. He lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos.

The daughter of Cuban exiles, Anna Kushner was born in Philadelphia and has been traveling to Cuba since 1999. In addition to The Black Cathedral and Call Me Cassandra, she has translated the novels of Norberto Fuentes, Leonardo Padura, Guillermo Rosales, and Gonçalo M. Tavares, as well as two collections of nonfiction by Mario Vargas Llosa.

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