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Three Trapped Tigers

Written by: G. Cabrera Infante, Donald Gardner - translator, Suzanne Jill Levine - translator
Narrated by: Enrico Mario Santi
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Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the US from Cuba. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography - such as the section entitled "Some Revelations", which consists of several blank minutes - this novel has been praised as a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centering on the recollections of a man separated from both his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

©1965 Guillermo Cabrera Infante; 1971 Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine (English Translation) (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
World Literature Literary Fiction
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Interesting….

I’m not sure ever understood what the plot was, but it was entertaining nonetheless.

Enrico Santi is truly masterful in his performance of this novel. I will definitely look for more titles performed by him. I think reading this book would be unbearable because of its rather fluid structure, but as an audiobook with a fantastic narrator it kind of works.

The writing actually reminded me a lot of Nabokov in terms of play on words, This is what made it entertaining, but if you were to ask me what it was about I couldn’t answer very well. It seems to be a snap shot in the lives of various characters and, much like reality, there is no real beginning or end.

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