LOS PALACIOS DISTANTES
(Distant palaces)
Author:
Estévez, Abilio
Publisher:
Tusquets
Language: Spanish
Format: Paperback.
280 pgs (21.0 x 14.0 cm)
ISBN: 8483102145
Numb. of edition: 1st Ed.
Pub. date: 2002
Referential PVP: USA $ 20.95
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Synopsis
With passion and eloquence, master craftsman Abilio Estevez brings to life the mysterious, broken down city of Havana on the eve of the new millennium. Victorio, a lonely, middle-aged gay man, awakes to the news that the ancient palace where he rents a tiny apartment is scheduled to be demolished, leaving him homeless. Wandering the streets in search of a new place to call his own, he meets two unusual people who are destined to change his life: Salma, a young prostitute, and Don Fuco, an eccentric old clown who brings both of them to live in his own refuge, an abandoned theater.

In a city riddled with conflict and no longer tolerant of outcasts, the pair find solace in one another and in the dilapidated theater that shelters them, and a renewed joy in their collective abilities to entertain people with their clowning. But when the harsh realities of life intrude on their self-contained utopia, Victorio and Salma are forced back out into the streets, where they struggle to keep beauty and laughter alive.

 

 

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