The lady matador's hotel : a novel
Garcia, Cristina (1958-)
The lady matador's hotel : a novel / Cristina Garcia - 1st Scribner hardcover ed - New York : Scribner , 2010. - 209 p. ; 23 cm.
Sensual prose softens the crushing blows that life doles out to almost every character. Six lives cross paths in a luxury hotel somewhere in the tropics of Central America. It's a gloomy portrait of modern life: in the honeymoon suite, a Korean businessman contemplates suicide as his pregnant 15-year old mistress flits around dressed up like a harlot from a bygone era; on the rooftop, waitress and ex-guerrilla Aura Estrada sips tea with her dead brother, who warns her of the arrival of the colonel whokilled him; Martin Abe, the corpulent colonel, plots against leftists, curses the wife who's left him, andlusts after the most talked about guest in the hotel: Suki Palacios, also known as the Lady Matador; aCalifornian of Mexican and Japanese descent, Suki is in town to fight in the first ever Battle of the Lady Matadors in the Americas.
9781439181744
2009049749
Hotels----Latin America----Fiction
Women bullfighters----Fiction
PS3557.A66 / L33 2010
FIC GAR
The lady matador's hotel : a novel / Cristina Garcia - 1st Scribner hardcover ed - New York : Scribner , 2010. - 209 p. ; 23 cm.
Sensual prose softens the crushing blows that life doles out to almost every character. Six lives cross paths in a luxury hotel somewhere in the tropics of Central America. It's a gloomy portrait of modern life: in the honeymoon suite, a Korean businessman contemplates suicide as his pregnant 15-year old mistress flits around dressed up like a harlot from a bygone era; on the rooftop, waitress and ex-guerrilla Aura Estrada sips tea with her dead brother, who warns her of the arrival of the colonel whokilled him; Martin Abe, the corpulent colonel, plots against leftists, curses the wife who's left him, andlusts after the most talked about guest in the hotel: Suki Palacios, also known as the Lady Matador; aCalifornian of Mexican and Japanese descent, Suki is in town to fight in the first ever Battle of the Lady Matadors in the Americas.
9781439181744
2009049749
Hotels----Latin America----Fiction
Women bullfighters----Fiction
PS3557.A66 / L33 2010
FIC GAR
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