I read this a couple of years ago since it was laying around my girlfriends
house. Didn't particularly like it. If you do read it you should have the
Buena Vista Social Club playing in the background. It is about two Cuban brothers who
come to New York to play music, and the women they love. Notable as Hijeulos
is the first Hispanic writer to win the Fiction Pulitzer.
Odd name, odd book. A story about a Forest Gump type of character who
ends up in Newfoundland writing for a crazy local newspaper. I always felt that
there was a feeling of 'almost fantasy' in this story. Many odd barely believable
things happen. I suspect that this book would be more understandable with a
second read. It is a little bit like the film Memento, where you just want to
say, "What! Wait! What was that all about?"
