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008			110224s2010 nyu 001 0 eng
010			_a2009049749
020			_a9781439181744
050	0	0	_aPS3557.A66 _bL33 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC GAR
100	1		_aGarcia, Cristina _d(1958-)
245	1	4	_aThe lady matador's hotel _b: a novel _c/ Cristina Garcia
250			_a1st Scribner hardcover ed
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, 2010.
300			_a209 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aSensual 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.
650		4	_aHotels _z--Latin America _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen bullfighters _v--Fiction
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