The Halfway House [Paperback]

Never before available in English,Perfect for the pool and beyond.Confronting an impassive world, Guillermo Rosales has left us this painful, violent, and lyrical testament.The characters in the halfway house are tragically beautiful and unforgettable.It seems almost impossible to find so much cruelty in barely one hundred pages; but its just that behind these terrible and moving one hundred pages there are thousands of pages, millions of sentences, that reveal an entirely destroyed universe. Indispensable.The real brilliance is&its portrait of a man...reduced to the very cruelty he had tried to avoid.This book is a shot of light through the darkness of human misery.A masterful kick-in-the-teeth&savagely beautiful.Hope inevitably implodes into disappointment, and love&curdles with the possibility of destruction.We are fortunate to have this award-winning book finally available to English-speaking readers. Very powerful and gripping.WithThis posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill& Its a frightening, nihilistic cousin of