{"product_id":"the-tribe-carlos-manuel-alvarez-9781913097912","title":"The Tribe","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarlos Manuel Alvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs thecronica form - a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelisticforms - to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the re-establishment of diplomatic relationswith the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnique, edgy and stylishly written, The Tribe shows a society in flux, featuring sportsmen in exile, artists, nurses,underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting tomake their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, dealers from the black market, as well as revelers andpolicemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Languagenovelists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'There is magic in these pages...[T]his book tells the actual story of Cuba as it exists today.'- Jon Lee Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Alvarez does not try to instruct or speculate. He does not write on whether the Revolution succeeded or failed. He doesnot determine whether the leader was a hero or a tyrant. His book is not an explanation: it is ... the history of a countrytold through its people.'- Maria Teresa Hernandez, AP News\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carlos Manuel Alvarez","offers":[{"title":"As New","offer_id":43176634679539,"sku":"9990002638541","price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781913097912.jpg?v=1662087093","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-tribe-carlos-manuel-alvarez-9781913097912","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}