{"id":46785,"date":"2020-05-18T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46785"},"modified":"2021-03-24T19:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:35:04","slug":"the-fallen-by-carlos-manuel-alvarez-translated-by-frank-wynne-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-fallen-by-carlos-manuel-alvarez-translated-by-frank-wynne-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fallen by Carlos Manuel \u00c1lvarez, translated by Frank Wynne [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46265\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Fallen-Carlos-Manuel-Alvarez-BookDragon-534x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Fallen-Carlos-Manuel-Alvarez-BookDragon-534x800.jpg 534w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Fallen-Carlos-Manuel-Alvarez-BookDragon.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nThe family is Cuban. The son, 18, is fulfilling his military conscription, enduring mind-numbing sentry duty any way he can until his release. The mother, once a schoolteacher, is housebound with a violently debilitating illness. The father, who manages a four-star tourist hotel, is \u201can honest and irreproachable boss\u201d who adamantly eschews any hint of corruption, holding tight to his idealism as a Che Guevarra-\u00a0and Ho Chi Minh-quoting revolutionary. The daughter, 23, works a menial job in the same hotel and does whatever is necessary to ensure the mother\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n<p>By novel\u2019s end, the father sits in\u00a0the police station;\u00a0the son is on his way to find out why; and mother and daughter are in the hospital, sifting through\u00a0\u201cmedical logorrhea,\u201d searching for understanding.<\/p>\n<p>A searing work of literary excellence, Cuban writer Carlos Manuel \u00c1lvarez\u2019s disturbing, dazzling debut novel arrives stateside, Anglophone-enabled by award-winning Irish writer\/translator Frank Wynne. \u00c1lvarez unravels this story of an imploding family-in-crisis with symmetrical precision. The novel is in five succinct sections, each of which \u00c1lvarez further divides to present the four family members\u2019 points of view, rotating their perspectives in a pattern \u2013 visually and narratively \u2013 throughout. Although \u00c1lvarez\u2019s characters are named, the chapter headings \u2013 son, mother, father, daughter \u2013 suggest that what happens to this family could happen to any family.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Fallen-Carlos-Manuel-lvarez\/pid=9729798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018 (Mexico), 2020 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW The family is Cuban. The son, 18, is fulfilling his military conscription, enduring mind-numbing sentry duty any way he can until his release. The mother, once a schoolteacher, is housebound with a violently debilitating illness. 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