DANCING TO ALMENDRA(SPANISH TITLE:SON DE ALMENDRA)

Book ID/图书代码： 12560506B02664

English Summary/英文概要： Havana, 1957. A young Cuban journalist has decided to investigate the connections between the murder of the mafia don, Umberto Anastasia in New York, and mafia business in Cuba.
While he is undertaking his investigations, the journalist is sent by his newspaper to write a piece about a hippopotamus that has escaped from the zoo and has been killed. There, he meets a man who "knows too much" and whispers something to him about a certain message that was sent to Anastasia. That man, who feeds the lions and tigers in the zoo, promises to give more information to the journalist in exchange for an opportunity to meet his idol, a film star who is coming to work in Cuba: George Raft.
Big shots of the Mafia: Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Santo Trafficante also make appearances as part of the swirling background of this novel.
And the book is simultaneously a love story, of the oddest sort imaginable. The love story is narrated by a woman--a beautiful mulatta who works in the famous Sans Souci cabaret in Havana--but who is also keeping another most incredible secret.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1957年的哈瓦那（古巴首都）。一名古巴記者決定私下調查一起謀殺案件，這起謀殺案件與紐約黑手黨組織以及黑手黨頭子Umberto Anastasia的地下勢力有關。
就在這名記者展開調查的同時，他被報社派遣去寫一篇新聞稿，是關於逃出動物園的河馬被殺的社會事件。記者在動物園訪問餵養獅子和老虎的工作人員時，意外發現這個不起眼的小人物竟然知道許多有關黑手黨的內幕，這個來自社會底層的飼養員願意告訴記者他所需要的資訊，但記者必須答應提供他，與他心目中偶像見面的機會，飼養工最崇拜的，是即將到古巴工作的電影明星──George Raft。著名電影－《黑手黨》中的許多大人物，包括Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Santo Trafficante，也都成為作者的小說背景人物，十分有趣。
本書同時也穿插著另一格愛情故事，漂亮的黑白混血女孩在哈瓦尼著名的Sans Souci酒吧工作，她一直守著令人十分難以置信的秘密……(TT)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Mayra Montero (born 1952) is a well-known Cuban-Puerto Rican writer.
Montero was born in Havana, Cuba in 1952. She left Cuba at a young age and has lived in Puerto Rico since the mid 1960s. She studied journalism in Mexico and Puerto Rico and worked for many years as a correspondent in Central America and the Caribbean. She is presently a highly acclaimed journalist in Puerto Rico and writes a popular weekly column in Spanish "Antes que llegue el lunes" (Before Monday arrives) in El Nuevo Dia newspaper.
All of her books are written originally in Spanish and have been broadly translated to English and other languages. Montero’s first book was a collection of short stories, Twenty-Three and a Turtle. Her second book, a novel titled The Braid of the Beautiful Moon, was a finalist for the Herralde awards, one of Europe’s most prestigious literary awards. Each of her subsequent books -- The Last Night I Spent With You, The Red of His Shadow, In the Palm of Darkness, and The Messenger -- has been published in the United States in translations by Edith Grossman, as well as in several European countries. Her other nonfiction work appears frequently in scholarly and literary publications throughout the world. Her most recent novel "Son de Almendra" is the product of an extensive research about the murder of the mafia leader Albert Anastasia at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York in the year 1957.
On January 26, 2006, Mayra Montero joined other internationally renowned figures and Latin American authors such as Nobel-laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Benedetti, Ernesto Sábato, Thiago de Mello, Eduardo Galeano, Pablo Armando Fernández, Carlos Monsiváis, Jorge Enrique Adoum, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Ana LydiaVega and world famous singer/composer Pablo Milanés, in demanding sovereignty for Puerto Rico and adding their name and signatue to the Latin American and Caribbean Congress’ Proclamation for the Independence of Puerto Rico, which approved a resolution favoring the island-nation’s right to assert its independence, as ratified unanimously by political parties hailing from twenty two Latin American countries in November 2006.
梅拉．蒙提羅(Mayra Montero)是成長在波多黎各的古巴裔女作家。她的作品曾被收錄在《情色聖誕》（圓神出版），知名代表作《Deep Purple》（深紫情慾，北極之光出版），更獲得西班牙最負盛名的情慾文學獎──「正直的微笑」，上市以來，被翻譯成多種語言，在世界各地都掀起浪潮。但蒙提羅的文學中，情慾只是其中一項元素，更深沉的是，對人性真實的探討思索，以及古巴、波多黎各的政治、歷史，以及當地人們的內心世界。由於這些地區共產、社會主義與爭取獨立和主權的背景，蒙提羅的筆下，也有大量關於義大利黑手黨滲入、與這些勢力相互糾結的描述，相當精采。她的所有作品原文皆以西班牙文寫就，但全數都已在英美出版，在英語世界相當知名而暢銷，也被認為是西班牙語系文壇最重要、首屈一指的女作家。蒙提羅熱衷波多黎各從美國獨立建國的政治運動，與其它拉美語系重量級作家連署支持波多黎各獨立，其中不乏諾貝爾文學獎得主們，與蒙提羅保持文友與盟友的良好友誼關係。

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