{"product_id":"sacrificio","title":"Sacrificio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSet in Cuba in 1998, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSacrificio \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss’s son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group “Los Injected Ones,” which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II’s upcoming visit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen Renato goes missing, Rafa’s search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city’s detritus by Los Injected Ones.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSacrificio \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUSED COPY - Mint Condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003ePublis\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ehed: USA, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublish\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eer: Soho Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 456\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9781641293648\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_signature_prefix\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ernesto Mestre-Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56577734377803,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9781641293648.jpg?v=1771605370","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/sacrificio","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}