
Pig's Foot
Carlos Acosta(Author)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Will be published approx. on 28. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-4088-3372-8 (ISBN)
Description
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'Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless' - Kate Saunders, The Times
'Elegant and seductive' - Guardian
'Spellbinding ... Acosta does for prose what he has done for the ballet, bringing to it a muscular sexiness and a rural saltiness' - Independent on Sunday
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A dazzling novel of revolution, family secrets, love and identity across four generations
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales - some taller than others. But one day Oscar wakes to find himself utterly alone, the sole descendant of his family line. He is not sure what to do or where to go, but in the midst of this uncertainty, he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: 'No man knows who he is until he knows his past.' So Oscar sets out to find his ancestral village and the meaning of the magical pig's-foot amulet he has inherited.
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'A little pressure cooker of a novel' - Daily Express
'An enormously warm-hearted novel: tearful at times, triumphant at others' - Mail on Sunday
'Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless' - Kate Saunders, The Times
'Elegant and seductive' - Guardian
'Spellbinding ... Acosta does for prose what he has done for the ballet, bringing to it a muscular sexiness and a rural saltiness' - Independent on Sunday
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A dazzling novel of revolution, family secrets, love and identity across four generations
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales - some taller than others. But one day Oscar wakes to find himself utterly alone, the sole descendant of his family line. He is not sure what to do or where to go, but in the midst of this uncertainty, he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: 'No man knows who he is until he knows his past.' So Oscar sets out to find his ancestral village and the meaning of the magical pig's-foot amulet he has inherited.
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'A little pressure cooker of a novel' - Daily Express
'An enormously warm-hearted novel: tearful at times, triumphant at others' - Mail on Sunday
Reviews / Votes
Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless * <b>Kate Saunders, <i>The Times</i></b> * Pig's Foot is as catchy as a piece of Cuban music, defers to Latin America's literary tradition and shimmers with a likable swagger all its own * <b>Eileen Battersby, <i>Irish Times</i></b> * Vibrant * <i><b>Sunday Telegraph</i></b> * Elegant and seductive * <i><b>Guardian</i></b> * A little pressure cooker of a novel * <B><I>Daily Express</I></B> * Spellbinding ... Acosta does for prose what he has done for the ballet, bringing to it a muscular sexiness and a rural saltiness * <i><b>Independent on Sunday</i></b> * An exuberantly enjoyable tale * <i><b>Guardian</i></b> * An enormously warm-hearted novel: tearful at times, triumphant at others * <i><b>Mail on Sunday</i></b> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3372-8 (9781408833728)
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Carlos Acosta
Pig's Foot
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€8.49
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Carlos Acosta was born in Havana in 1973 and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the American Ballet Theater and the Royal Ballet, and has danced as a guest artist all over the world, winning numerous international awards. He is the author of the autobiography No Way Home.
www.carlosacosta.com
Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He is also the translator of Tomas Eloy Martinez's Purgatory and Marcelo Figueras's Kamchatka.
www.carlosacosta.com
Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He is also the translator of Tomas Eloy Martinez's Purgatory and Marcelo Figueras's Kamchatka.