Telex From Cuba

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel K is in Havana''s Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past. Everly and K. C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.