{"product_id":"sacrificio-by-ernesto-mestre-reed","title":"Sacrificio by Ernesto Mestre-Reed","description":"\u003cp class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a cafe. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss's son, the charismatic Renato, leader of the counterrevolutionary group 'Los Injected Ones,' which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Renato goes missing, Rafa's search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium, to the guest rooms of tourist hotels, to the outskirts of the capital, where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city's detritus by Los Injected Ones. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse, Sacrificio is a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humour of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003ePaperback \/ 456 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44040219263191,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781641294850.jpg?v=1691528222","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/sacrificio-by-ernesto-mestre-reed","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}