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Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the crónica form—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.

Unique, edgy, and stylishly written, The Tribe shows a society in flux, featuring athletes in exile, artists, nurses, underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting to make their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, and dealers in the black market, as well as revelers and policemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists.

ISBN-13: 9781644450901

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Publication Date: 06-21-2022

Pages: 336

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

Carlos Manuel Álvarez is the author of 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 forty. He divides his time between Havana and Mexico City. Frank Wynne has translated works by authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, and Virginie Despentes. His work has earned many awards, including the IMPAC Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Premio Valle Inclán. Rahul Bery translates works from Spanish and Portuguese. His full-length translations include Kokoschka’s Doll by Afonso Cruz and Rolling Fields by David Trueba.

Table of Contents

Post-Castro Cuba, an Approximation 3

Black Pitcher, White Socks 15

Wanted 31

Death of the Train Driver 45

Tight-Lipped 61

Dancing in the Dark 71

The Malecón: The Orgy of Forms 85

Offside 101

The Road to the North 119

Engineers and Traffickers 139

Thursdays with Ray 151

Broken Doll 169

The National Performance 187

Panama Selfies 203

Alcides, the Unpublished 219

Fidel, the Butcher 241

A Trapped (and Multiple) Tiger 261

Death in Jesús María 273

Boarding Pass 289