The Fallen
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A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel The Fallen is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him. Mariana, the mother, is unwell and forced to relinquish her control over the home to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in one of the state-owned tourist hotels. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary who is sickened by the corruption he perceives all around him. In meticulously charting the disintegration of a family, The Fallen offers a poignant reflection on contemporary Cuba and the clash of the ardent idealism of the old guard with the jaded pragmatism of the young.
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Carlos Manuel Álvarez (Cuba 1989) es periodista y escritor. En 2013 recibió el Premio Calendario por su colección de relatos cortos La tarde de los sucesos definitivos (2014) y en 2015 recibió el Premio Iberoamericano de Periodismo Nuevas Plumas de la Universidad de Guadalajara. En 2016 fundó la revista online cubana El Estornudo junto a otros colegas. Colabora habitualmente en el New York Times, El País, Internazionale, Altaïr, El Malpensante y Gatopardo. En diciembre de 2016 fue elegido entre los mejores veinte escritores latinoamericanos nacidos en la década de 1980 por la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara en México, y en mayo de 2017 fue incluido en Bogotá39, la lista de los mejores 39 escritores latinoamericanos menores de 40 años que organiza el Hay Festival cada diez años. Su primera colección de trabajos periodísticos, La tribu, se publicó en 2017 y su primera novela, Los caídos, en 2018.
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