Telex from Cuba
  • Published: 1 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099586999
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

Telex from Cuba

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1 Feb 2014
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The New York Times bestselling debut novel by the author of the Folio Prize shortlisted The Flamethrowers

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Fidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.

Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
  • Published: 1 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099586999
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is the author of The Mars Room, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels, Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers, were both New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Praise for Telex from Cuba

With its sharp detail and precisely drawn characters, Telex from Cuba offers a compelling look at a paradise corrupted

People

Telex from Cuba elegantly weaves together a gripping story of individuals and their lives leading up to one of the most notorious revolutions of the twentieth century

Time Out New York