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Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature Series) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Three Trapped TigersMany of Cuba's intellectuals embraced the Castro regime, but Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who criticized it, was condemned as a traitor and forced into exile. From this bitter experience, which included his hospitalization for mental collapse, came the vivid sketches of Cuban life that made up the acclaimed "View of Dawn from the Tropics". In exile he revised this work into "Three Trapped Tigers", a
Full description- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Published: 01 February 2005
- Format: Paperback 310 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781564783790 ISBN 10: 1564783790
- Sales rank: 353,807
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WILL BE MADE INTO A FILM DIRECTED BY ANDY GARCIA AND STARRING DUSTIN HOFFMAN Cabrera Infante has written the screenplay for the film himself. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography - such as the section entitled "Some Revelations", which consists of several blank pages - this novel is a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centring on the recollections of a man separated from both is country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colourful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

