The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala audiobook

The Black Cathedral: A Novel

By Marcial Gala
Translated by Anna Kushner
Read by Kyla Garcia  and Gary Tiedemann

Tantor Audio 9780374118013

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
  • $36.99

    ISBN: 9781665199773

  • $41.99

    ISBN: 9781665199780

Runtime: 6.39 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate

The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem.

In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral.

Told by a chorus of narrators—including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer—who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another's stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Gala achieves an oral-history-like effect, producing a profound, and often humorous, meditation on how desires―religious, sexual, financial―clash in a small-town environment." New Yorker
“A raucous, anguished, fast-paced story, tautly written and deeply rooted.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Listeners will be hooked by this fast-paced and suspenseful audiobook about unrequited love and betrayal. AudioFile

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Author Bio: Marcial Gala

Author Bio: Marcial Gala

Marcial Gala is a novelist, a poet, and an architect and is a member of UNEAL, the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. The Black Cathedral received the Alejo Carpentier Award for best novel in 2012 and the Critics' Award in 2012. He was born in Havana in 1963 and lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos.

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Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 6.39
Audience: Adult
Language: English