Award-winning writer John Sayles's critically acclaimed novel explores fifty years of Cuban-American relations. Set in Miami in 1981, Los Gusanos is the vivid and moving account of one extended family's life in Cuba and the United States. With pathos and understanding, Sayles introduces us to a memorable range of charactersyoung, old, black, and whiteall of whom are struggling to make a new life in their adopted country while haunted by the memories of Cuba. Taking as its title the derogatory term Castro used to describe those who fled to Miami after he came to power, Los Gusanos is beautifully rendered; a deterministic study of who will be the casualty and who the survivor in a time of political upheaval.
- ISBN10 156025646X
- ISBN13 9781560256465
- Publish Date 20 December 2004 (first published 1 December 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 January 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Avalon Publishing Group
- Imprint Nation Books
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English