Three Trapped Tigers

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Dalkey Archive Press, 2004 - Fiction - 487 pages

Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the U.S. from Cuba. 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 has been praised as a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centering on the recollections of a man separated from both his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

 

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Section 1
3
Section 2
11
Section 3
16
Section 4
24
Section 5
27
Section 6
34
Section 7
40
Section 8
47
Section 18
135
Section 19
158
Section 20
161
Section 21
209
Section 22
213
Section 23
237
Section 24
240
Section 25
242

Section 9
55
Section 10
67
Section 11
71
Section 12
76
Section 13
85
Section 14
118
Section 15
125
Section 16
126
Section 17
132
Section 26
291
Section 27
292
Section 28
300
Section 29
302
Section 30
311
Section 31
317
Section 32
482
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About the author (2004)

Born in Cuba, Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) was a supporter of the revolution and a cultural attach? under Castro's regime until his journal was censored and shut down by the new government. In 1965 he went into exile and became one of the earliest and most outspoken of Castro's Cuban critics. He produced both fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Infante's Inferno and the "history" Holy Smoke. He was also the screenwriter of such acclaimed and notorious films as Vanishing Point and Wonderwall.

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