The Tribe av Carlos Manuel Alvarez

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<p>Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in <em>The Tribe</em> aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel ¿lvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the<em> cr¿nica </em>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. </p><p>Unique, edgy and stylishly written, <em>The Tribe</em> 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 i