Cuban Heels with Twisting Tongues
Salman Rushdie, 4 June 1981
Three Trapped Tigers
by G. Cabrera Infante.
Picador, 487 pp., £2.95, August 1980,0 330 26133 9 Show More
by G. Cabrera Infante.
Picador, 487 pp., £2.95, August 1980,
“... PM is reincarnated here as the great black whale of a singer, ‘La’ Estrella, a warbling Moby Dick or, to allow this review to become infected by Cabrera’s advanced pun-ophilia, Moby Pussy. And there is a third reason. When this novel, under the title Vista del Amanecer en le Tropica (Vision of Dawn in the Tropics), was awarded the Biblioteca Breve ... ”