BOOK OF THE MONTH: OCTOBER

   

   

  

THE LADY MATADOR'S HOTEL

by Cristina Garcia

Scribner, Sept 2010

"The novel has the energy of an obsessive tango.

Or, indeed, a bullfight."

--The New York Times Book Review

A dazzling, evocative novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a

Latin American hotel in the midst of political turmoil . . .

a fierce and gorgeous story about politics, gender, and passion.

 

 

 

BOOK SUMMARY:    In an unnamed Central American capital, at a luxurious hotel, the lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerilla now working as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop; a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the honeymoon suite; an international adoption lawyer of German descent; a colonel who committed atrocities during his country's long civil war; and a Cuban poet who has come with his American wife to adopt a local infant. With each day, their lives become further entangled resulting in the unexpected-- the clash of histories and the pull of revenge and desire.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cristina García has published five novels: DREAMING IN CUBAN, THE AGÜERO SISTERS, MONKEY HUNTING, A HANDBOOK TO LUCK, and her newest just published by Scribner, THE LADY MATADOR'S HOTEL. She’s also published two anthologies, two young adult novels and a collection of poetry.

Her work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into a dozen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA grant, among others.  To learn more about Cristina, visit her at http://www.cristinagarcianovelist.com/.



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