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Set in Cuba in 1998,Sacrificiois a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.

Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a caf. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his bosss 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 IIs upcoming visit.

When Renato goes missing, Rafas 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 citys detritus by Los Injected Ones.

A novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse,Sacrificiois a visionary work, capturing the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.

Ernesto Mestre-Reedwas born in Guantnamo, Cuba, and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novelsThe Lazarus RumbaandThe Second Death of nica Aveyano. He is a Guggenheim Fiction Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow and teaches at Brooklyn College. He has also translated many novels from Spanish, including Laura EsquivelsMalinche.

• Publisher: Soho Press (September 6, 2022)
• Language: English
• Hardcover: 456 pages
• ISBN-10: 1641293640
• ISBN-13: 9781641293648
• Item Weight: 1.25 pounds
• Dimensions: 5.78 x 1.4 x 8.54 inches