{"product_id":"the-tribe-by-carlos-manuel-alvarez-9781913097912","title":"The Tribe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the \u003cem\u003ecrónica\u003c\/em\u003e form – a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelistic forms – to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnique, edgy, and stylishly written, \u003cem\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/em\u003e shows a society in flux, featuring sportsmen in exile, artists, nurses, underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting to make their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, dealers from the black market, as well as revelers and policemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘There is magic in these pages... [T]his book tells the actual story of Cuba as it exists today.’\u003c\/em\u003e – Jon Lee Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Álvarez does not try to instruct or speculate. He does not write on whether the Revolution succeeded or failed. He does not determine whether the leader was a hero or a tyrant. His book is not an explanation: it is ... the history of a country told through its people.’\u003c\/em\u003e – María Teresa Hernández, AP News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464696053996,"sku":"9781913097912","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781913097912-the-tribe.jpg?v=1775051115","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-tribe-by-carlos-manuel-alvarez-9781913097912","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}