Caracol Beach

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000 Winner of Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Prize in Fiction, this book is a gripping, kaleidoscopic novel about isolation, love, fear, and the collison of strangers' lives on one fateful night in a Florida town. On the outskirts of the quiet resort community of Caracol Beach, its unlikeliest - and perhaps most dangerous - resident plots his own demise. A Cuban veteran of the war in Angola, the sole survivor of an ambush that killed off the rest of his platoon, Beto Milanes has for eighteen years been racked with guilt and grief, and tormented by terrible visions. With audacity, humor, and deep insight into the human condition, Eliseo Alberto explores the horror of war, the pain of exile, the power of forgiveness and the inescapable, sometimes cruel toll of destiny. The story that unfolds is shocking and comic, evoking classic tragedy and the absurdity of modern life. 286 pages including an appendix. There is a small red dot at the page bottoms. The jacket has a few tiny brown spots on the front. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.