| Author/Contributor(s): | Montero, Mayra; Grossman, Edith |
| Publisher: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Date: | 12/26/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.