Telex From Cuba

Name: Telex From Cuba
Author: Rachel Kushner
ISBN: 141656103X

by Rachel Kushner

Telex from Cuba is the 2008 debut novel by writer Rachel Kushner. The novel follows a group of anglo-expatriates living in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution and was loosely based on Kushner's mother's experience growing up in Cuba on territory occupied by the United Fruit Company.

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Donna Tartt

"Am also loving Rachel Kushner’s “Telex From Cuba” and Gilbert Highet’s “Poets in a Landscape,” a charming appreciation of Catullus and Propertius and the Latin poets."

By the Book: Donna Tartt · nytimes.com