Sacrificio
Written by Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Narrated by Emmanuel Chumaceiro
4.5/5
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Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a cafe. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss's son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group "Los Injected Ones," which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit.
When Renato goes missing, Rafa's search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city's detritus by Los Injected Ones.
A novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse, Sacrificio is a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.
Editor's Note
Thrilling adventure and mournful coming-of-age…
In 1998, young Rafa moves to Havana during Cuba’s tumultuous “Special Period” and becomes involved with two HIV-positive brothers determined to overthrow Castro’s regime. Mestre-Reed breaks his 20-year writing hiatus to pen a novel that shows the extremes people go to for what they believe. It’s at once a thrilling, fast-paced adventure and a mournful coming-of-age tale about the harsh realities of life.
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