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    The Fallen
    The Fallen
    The Fallen
    Audiobook3 hours

    The Fallen

    Written by Carlos Manuel Álvarez

    Narrated by Javier Vaszquez

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    About this audiobook

    A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish control over the household to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in a state-owned tourist hotel. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary, a die-hard Fidelista who is sickened by the corruption he perceives all around him. As each member of the family narrates seemingly quotidian and overlapping events, they grow increasingly at odds for reasons that remain elusive to them—each of them holding and concealing their own secrets.

    In meticulously charting the disintegration of a single family, The Fallen offers a poignant reflection on contemporary Cuba and the clash of the ardent idealism of the old guard with the jaded pragmatism of the young. This is a startling and incisive debut by a radiant new voice in Latin American literature.

    Editor's Note

    Family strife…

    Set in Cuba during the Special Period of the 1990s, “The Fallen” is a story of family strife, secrets, and turmoil. Armando, Mariana, and their adult son and daughter struggle in the face of political and social unrest, each facing their own unique form of disillusionment. Cuban journalist and author Álvarez gives each family member a distinct voice, revealing the stark differences between generations and how family ties can complicate those differences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    TranslatorFrank Wynne
    Release dateApr 12, 2022
    ISBN9781094442266
    The Fallen
    Author

    Carlos Manuel Álvarez

    Carlos Manuel Álvarez (Cuba 1989) es periodista y escritor. En 2013 recibió el Premio Calendario por su colección de relatos cortos La tarde de los sucesos definitivos (2014) y en 2015 recibió el Premio Iberoamericano de Periodismo Nuevas Plumas de la Universidad de Guadalajara. En 2016 fundó la revista online cubana El Estornudo junto a otros colegas. Colabora habitualmente en el New York Times, El País, Internazionale, Altaïr, El Malpensante y Gatopardo. En diciembre de 2016 fue elegido entre los mejores veinte escritores latinoamericanos nacidos en la década de 1980 por la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara en México, y en mayo de 2017 fue incluido en Bogotá39, la lista de los mejores 39 escritores latinoamericanos menores de 40 años que organiza el Hay Festival cada diez años. Su primera colección de trabajos periodísticos, La tribu, se publicó en 2017 y su primera novela, Los caídos, en 2018.

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      It is a fatalistic book but there are a few beautiful passages which rise to the level of the classics.