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Call Me Cassandra

by Marcial Gala
Anna Kushner
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Finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
"Dazzling." —Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

"A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." —Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her
Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra.
Moving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli's is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  • ISBN: 9780374602024
  • Release date: January 11, 2022

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  • ISBN: 9780374602024
  • File size: 2581 KB
  • Release date: January 11, 2022
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Finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
"Dazzling." —Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

"A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." —Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her
Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra.
Moving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli's is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.

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Fiction Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)