The Fallen

Maravilloso. Una familia reaccionando a la misma situación de maneras totalmente distintas. La enfermedad, el abandono, el desear algo que nunca llega. Muy duro y hermoso, con un lenguaje pausado que te lleva a imaginar cada cosa que dice. No hay diálogos, pero mucho simbolismo y belleza triste. Rec......more

"I'm alive and in my underwear and my skin is yellow." A magnificent, disturbing novel, about a family that can no longer take care of itself, and that is trying to survive in a society that has left them with nothing to believe in. The inciting tragedy that the family must endure is the precipitous......more

Romanzo d’esordio del cubano Carlos Manuel Álvarez che parlando della crisi di una famiglia, si riferisce alla crisi dell’intera nazione cubana senza Fidel. Cinque parti, in cui quattro voci narranti esplicite si alternano in una corale polifonica diretta dalla voce narrante esterna. Il figlio, Diego,......more

This is a short novel (143 pages) told in an interesting fashion. It involves a family living in Cuba (1990s), and each one narrates a short chapter in alternating fashion...the father, Armando, who is a Che Guevara zealot, his wife, Mariana, who suffers from seizures thought to be due to side effec......more

Mi novela es vertical, hacia abajo, como una caída (Interview with the author at: [URL not allowed]-Manuel-...) I call my mother on the phone to see if she’s had a fall and she says no. Opening words of the novel Los Caidos is the debut novel of writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez, published in 20......more