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The lady matador's hotel : a novel / Cristina Garcia

By:

Garcia, Cristina, (1958-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , 2010.Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover edDescription: 209 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781439181744

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC GAR

LOC classification:

PS3557.A66 L33 2010

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		028744

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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.

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