Pig's Foot
«Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless»
<b>Kate Saunders, <i>The Times</i></b>
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales – some taller than others. But one day Oscar wakes to find himself utterly alone, the sole descendant of his family line. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781408833728
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless»
<b>Kate Saunders, <i>The Times</i></b>
«Pig’s Foot is as catchy as a piece of Cuban music, defers to Latin America’s literary tradition and shimmers with a likable swagger all its own»
<b>Eileen Battersby, <i>Irish Times</i></b>
«Vibrant»
<i><b>Sunday Telegraph</i></b>
«Elegant and seductive»
<i><b>Guardian</i></b>
«A little pressure cooker of a novel»
<B><I>Daily Express</I></B>
«Spellbinding ... Acosta does for prose what he has done for the ballet, bringing to it a muscular sexiness and a rural saltiness»
<i><b>Independent on Sunday</i></b>
«An enormously warm-hearted novel: tearful at times, triumphant at others»
<i><b>Mail on Sunday</i></b>