by Cristina García · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495908537
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«El cazador de monos» is the historical novel by Cristina García, published by Planeta Publishing in paperback (168 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Chen Pan, who arrives in Cuba from China in 1857 and ends up enslaved on a sugar cane plantation. After escaping, he prospers in Havana's Chinatown and starts a family; his story intertwines with that of two descendants in different eras, in a tale about identity, memory, and the Chinese diaspora in the Caribbean.
Translation by María Eugenia Ciocchini; original English title: Monkey Hunting. Part of the Lingua Franca collection.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary fiction interested in the Chinese diaspora and the history of Cuba.
Cristina García is a Cuban-born American novelist and playwright. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban (1992), was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. Her other novels include, A Handbook to Luck (2007); The Lady Matador's Hotel (2010); King of Cuba (2013); Here in Berlin (2017); and Vanishing Maps (2023).
