English | 2022 | ISBN: 1644450909 | 325 pages | True EPUB | 5.07 MB
Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered inThe Tribeaggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs thecrónicaform—a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative nonfiction, and novelistic techniques—to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the United States, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement.