Garcia, Cristina  (1958-) <br/><br/>
The lady matador's hotel  : a novel 
/ Cristina Garcia 
 - 1st Scribner hardcover ed 
 - New York  : Scribner  , 2010. 
 - 209 p.  ; 23 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781439181744 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009049749 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Hotels----Latin America----Fiction<br/>Women bullfighters----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3557.A66  / L33 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC GAR