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A View from the Mangrove
Translated by James Maraniss
Short fiction from the expatriate Cuban author of Sea of Lentils and The Repeating Island
"A collection of 11 densely written impressively imagined, and detailed
stories depicting the colonial history of several Latin American countries.
. . . A brilliant book."
Kirkus Reviews
"Benítez-Rojo chronicles events of unremitting and often unspeakable
horror—slave trading, invasions, mutinies, rebellions, murders. His
stories are dense with disaster and rich in description. . . . In Benítez-Rojo's
view, the truth is often more contradictory and confusing than fiction,
and in both it is difficult to tell the defeats from the triumphs, the pious
from the godless, the honorable from the unworthy."
New York Times Book Review
"A View from the Mangrove remains a thrilling piece, replete
with passion, excitement, and lore, and marks Benítez-Rojo as a skilled
and sophisticated storyteller. Readers will simultaneously battle some of
the bleak narratives of the characters while succumbing to the magic of
these tales. They cannot leave the experience until the last piece has ended.
Benítez-Rojo humbles us with the history that is the Caribbean, but
lets us appreciate the view from the mangrove, the beach, and beyond."
ForeWord
"Benítez-Rojo's stories in A View from the Mangrove
evoke a world that is rich and strange yet familiar to the heart. The last
story especially, 'Marina,' is absolutely memorable and the expert translation
by James Maraniss is every bit as lyrical and eloquent as each story requires."
Robert Stone
Former director of the Center for Caribbean Studies at Casa de las Americas in Cuba, Antonio Benítez-Rojo is the Thomas B. Walton Jr. Memorial Professor at Amherst College.
James Maraniss is professor of Spanish at Amherst College and author of On Calderón.
Fiction / Caribbean
Literature
256 pp.
LC 97-43469
$40.00s cloth, ISBN 1-55849-136-8
$24.95s paper, ISBN 1-55849-261-5
2000
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