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Caracol Beach

A Novel

By Eliseo Alberto
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Eliseo Alberto
Translated by Edith Grossman

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Paperback $17.00

Nov 13, 2001 | ISBN 9780375705069

Caracol Beach by Eliseo Alberto
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Nov 13, 2001 | ISBN 9780375705069

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About Caracol Beach

Eliseo Alberto’s award-winning Caracol Beach combines the passionate imagination of magic realism with the plotting of a thriller (and a modicum of farce). The result is a literary tour de force.

Beto Milanes, the night watchman at a graveyard in the Florida resort town of Caracol Beach, is a guilt-ridden Cuban war veteran. Tormented by memories and hallucinations, he yearns to die but is unable to take his own life. Instead, he decides to force someone-anyone-to kill him. That decision sets in motion a night of violence that draws an odd assortment of characters into Beto’s orbit. In scenes that range from the jungles of Angola to a seedy Florida bar, Alberto explores war, madness, exile, and the redemptive power of love.

Translated by Edith Grossman.

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About Eliseo Alberto

Eliseo Alberto, winner of the first International Alfaguara Prize in Fiction (1998), was born in Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Havana, and was editor in chief of the literary gazette El Caiman… More about Eliseo Alberto

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Vintage
Nov 13, 2001 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375705069
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Praise

"A spectacular read… Storytelling magic."
—The Miami Herald

"Magic realism is in flower, but beneath its extravagant exaggerations lie serious observations about human nature."
—The New York Times Book Review

"[B]rilliant… a modern tragedy where madness goes hand in hand with the absurd."
—El Pais

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