Telex from Cuba

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<p><b>The<i>New York Times</i>bestselling debut novel by the author of the Folio Prize shortlisted<i>The Flamethrowers</i></b> <b></b> <b>*A<i>New York Times</i>bestseller*</b> <b></b> <b>*Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction*</b></p><p>Fidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.</p><p>Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.</p><p>Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.</p>

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<b>Rachel Kushner</b>s debut novel,<i>Telex from Cuba</i>, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a<i>New York Times</i>bestseller. Her follow-up novel,<i>The Flamethrowers</i>, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Her fiction has appeared in the<i>New Yorker</i>,<i>Harpers</i>and the<i>Paris Review</i>. She lives in Los Angeles.

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