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Rachel's Song
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Rachel's Song Paperback - 1995

by Miguel Barnet; W. Nick Hill (Translator)

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This portrait of the glamorous and energetic world of Havana, Cuba, during the 1920s and 1930s centers around a popular nightspot, the Alhambra Theater, and Rachel, the dazzling star of a troupe of rumberos, rhumba dancers, that performs there.

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  • Title Rachel's Song
  • Author Miguel Barnet; W. Nick Hill (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Th
  • Pages 125
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Curbstone Press, [Williamantic]
  • Publication date 1995-07
  • ISBN 9780915306879 / 0915306875
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.39 x 0.31 in (21.51 x 13.69 x 0.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Dancers - Cuba - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91055412
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 09/01/1991, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/25/1991, Page 0

About the author

Miguel Barnet (born January 27, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimmarn (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who lived as a maroon after escaping slavery in the Caribbean. In 2009, Barnet was re-elected to a UNESCO committee on the study of Afro-Cuban culture.

W. Nick Hill is an American teacher and translator. Hill was a professor and the Director of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Farfield University, until his retirement in 2005. He currently lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

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Rachel's Song

Rachel's Song

by Miguel Barnet

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