Guillermo Rosales

Leapfrog and Other Stories

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Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in Havana ofthe late '50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes: By the way, do you know who died? No. Someone who was alive. Laughter. The kids fight, discuss the mysteries of religion and sex, and play games - such as leapfrog. So vivid and so very credible, Leapfrog reads as if Rosales had simply transcribed everything that he'd heard or said for this one moving and touching book about a lost childhood.Leapfrog was a finalist for Cuba's prestigious Casa de las Americas award in 1968. Years later, Rosales… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kushner, Anna (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1941-9
EAN: 9780811219419
Produktnummer: 14661462
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 145 S.
Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.5 cm x D1.5 cm 177 g
Gewicht: 177

Über den Autor

Guillermo Rosales (b. Cuba 1946 - d. Miami, 1993) grew up in revolutionary Cuba where his father served in Cuba's diplomatic corps. He became a journalist and then a promising novelist. Yet, his work was denounced as morose, pornographic,and irreverent by the Communist Party, which led to his first nervous breakdown. Forced to leave the country for Miami, he suffered from schizophrenia, was in and out of psychiatric wards, then tragically, after destroying most of his unpublished manuscripts, shot himself at age 47.