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Miguel is Cuban American, with the accent on American. But beneath the surface of his sun-drenched Miami lifestyle lurks an evil that threatens to destroy him. The chance reading of a newspaper article reporting a stolen skull and the ritualistic murder of a petty drug dealer pitches Miguel into an underworld where his cultural roots grab him like tentacles. His newly kindled compulsion to learn more about his culture brings him pleasure in the sensuous beauty of Ileana and pain in the enticing danger of voodoo. Thrust into a tailspin world dominated by santeria, the Afro-Caribbean religion of his native island, Miguel and Ileana must find their way among mysterious cult initiations, drum ceremonies to invoke African deities and, ultimately, a hair-raising confrontation with the terrible god Shango. Chock full of fascinating characters, from the absent-minded professor to the tough but sentimental detective, from the inept thugs Hernan and Dago to the malevolent Rosa, and with the added intrigue of Afro-Caribbean religious rituals, Shango is spellbinding and engrossing.
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- Title Shango
- Author James Roberto Curtis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Softcover Ed
- Pages 197
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Arte Publico Press, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1996-04
- ISBN 9781558850965 / 1558850961
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.51 x 0.6 in (21.69 x 14.00 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: Florida
- Category Fiction - Psychological Suspense
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Anthropologists - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95037664
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/15/1996, Page 1572
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/1996, Page 312
- Publishers Weekly, 03/25/1996, Page 78
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