Chantel Acevedo

Cages

Sprachen: Englisch. 21,3 cm / 14,2 cm / 2,5 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 208 Seiten
EAN 9798889661900
Veröffentlicht Juni 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Europa Editions
25,00 inkl. MwSt.
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"Acevedo has written the impossible: an Odyssey for the Cuban 20th century."--Junot Diaz A sweeping, choral portrait of a man as seen through the eyes of those who loved him, feared him, and were betrayed by him. Cages is the story of Felix--a zookeeper in Cuba during the time of the missile crisis, an exile in swinging sixties London, and finally a dying man in 1980s AIDS-era Miami. In this daring novel, Acevedo's most personal and heartfelt to date, the fragments of Felix's story are put together like pieces of a puzzle by one who knew him mostly as an absence. Cuba, 1963. Felix risks everything for an illicit love affair with a co-worker. In a society where homosexuality is branded "counterrevolutionary," their tenderness unfolds in the shadow of danger, treachery, and political oppression. In London, Felix and his wife Anabel navigate exile and reinvention, while an aspiring actress named Claudia finds herself drawn into their orbit, her ambitions and desires colliding with Felix's own hunger for connection. Years later, Virgilio--Anabel's devoted brother--recounts the disintegration of Felix's marriage and his decision to step in and protect the family Felix abandoned. From Anabel, long silent about her complicity in the events that forced Felix's flight from Cuba, to Rita, the daughter born out of wedlock, each vivid character gives us a different version of Felix, and the result is a dazzling mosaic of longing, deception, survival, and reconciliation. Spanning Havana, London, and Miami over a thirty-year arc, Cages explores exile, forbidden love, fractured families, the nature of truth, and the stories we tell to make sense of the people we cannot forget.

Portrait

Chantel Acevedo  was born in Miami to Cuban parents. She is the author of The Living Infinite (Europa, 2017); The Distant Marvels (Europa, 2015), a Carnegie Medal Finalist; A Falling Star (Carolina Wren Press, 2014); and Love and Ghost Letters (St. Martins, 2006), winner of the Latino International Book Award. Acevedo is a professor of English at the University of Miami, where she teaches in the MFA program.

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