Call me Cassandra / Marcial Gala ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner

Author: Gala, Marcial, 1963-
Uniform Title: Llámenme Casandra. English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Copyright Date: ©2022
Edition: First American edition.
Physical Description: 211 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators: Kushner, Anna

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"A darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, and believing himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology"--
Cuba in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in hostile world: his older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. Rauli knows three things to be true: he was born in the wrong body; he will die at age eighteen as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola; and he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. -- adapted from jacket

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9780374602017 (hardcover)
0374602018 (hardcover)

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