Revolution Sunday [Paperback]

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A novel of glamour, surveillance, and corruption in contemporary Cuba, from an internationally bestselling author--who has never before been translated into English

Cleo, scion of a once-prominent Cuban family and a promising young writer in her own right, travels to Spain to collect a prestigious award. There, Cuban expats view her with suspicion--assuming she's an informant for the Castro regime. To Cleo's surprise, that suspicion follows her home to Cuba, where she finds herself under constant surveillance by the government. When she meets and falls in love with a Hollywood filmmaker, she discovers her family is not who she thought they were . . . and neither is the filmmaker. Radical...Revolution Sunday is about creating art under surveillance, and about our homelands' inescapable pull... Guerra is a fearless writer, and she's lucky to have a fearless translator [in Achy Obejas]. Together, they make Revolution Sunday more vivid than life. —Lily Meyer, NPR

More than in its plot—a Cold War conspiracy of sorts—the movement of 'Revolution Sunday' is in the coming and going from the island...Obejas succeeds in capturing the sense of doom, the weather of half-truths and paranoia, floating at the edges of Cleo’s Cuba. —Jaime Lalinde,THE NEW YORK TIMES

[A] Kafkaesque art thriller... Havana’s slow political thaw brings new texture and urgency to the genre of political paranoia. —NYMAG.COM /VULTURE

Sensual, atmospheric —Jane Ciabattari,BBC.com

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