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1488725Easy in the Islandshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/easy-in-the-islands/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/491832/49b80e8b-bd80-407e-83e6-db8c3960f2d7.jpg?v=638335030870730000174200MXNGrove AtlanticInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction: Beguiling stories . . . about an uncommonly fascinating part of the hemisphere (<em>Time</em>).</strong></p><p><em>Easy in the Islands</em> is a stunning collection of stories by one of contemporary Americas foremost journalists and fiction writers. Infused with the rhythms of the Caribbean, these vivid tales of paradise sought and paradise lost are as lush, steamy, and invigorating as the islands themselves (<em>The Washington Post</em>).</p><p>A calypso singer named Lord Short Shoe consorts with a vampish black singer to bilk an American out of his only companiona monkey. An island bureaucracy confounds the attempts of a hotel owner to get his dead mother out of the freezer and into a real graveuntil he resorts to a highly unusual form of burial. Two poor islanders stumble into a high-class dance party and find themselves caught in a violent encounter that just might escalate into revolution. And a young woman sails off into the romantic tropics with the man of her dreams, only to learn the hard wayas Eve didthat paradise is just another place to leave behind.</p><p>From fishing fleets in remote atolls too small to appear on any map to the sprawling barrios and yacht filled marinas of Miami, Bob Shacochis charts a course across a Caribbean that no tourist will recognize.</p>...1472125Easy in the Islands174200https://www.gandhi.com.mx/easy-in-the-islands/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/491832/49b80e8b-bd80-407e-83e6-db8c3960f2d7.jpg?v=638335030870730000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20079780802199324_W3siaWQiOiI1NWRkNmNjMy0yOGQyLTQxZmYtOTI1NS1iMjY3MWM0ZjZmZjciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIwMCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjI2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE3NCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDUtMjFUMDI6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780802199324_<p><strong>Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction: Beguiling stories . . . about an uncommonly fascinating part of the hemisphere (<em>Time</em>).</strong></p><p><em>Easy in the Islands</em> is a stunning collection of stories by one of contemporary Americas foremost journalists and fiction writers. Infused with the rhythms of the Caribbean, these vivid tales of paradise sought and paradise lost are as lush, steamy, and invigorating as the islands themselves (<em>The Washington Post</em>).</p><p>A calypso singer named Lord Short Shoe consorts with a vampish black singer to bilk an American out of his only companiona monkey. An island bureaucracy confounds the attempts of a hotel owner to get his dead mother out of the freezer and into a real graveuntil he resorts to a highly unusual form of burial. Two poor islanders stumble into a high-class dance party and find themselves caught in a violent encounter that just might escalate into revolution. And a young woman sails off into the romantic tropics with the man of her dreams, only to learn the hard wayas Eve didthat paradise is just another place to leave behind.</p><p>From fishing fleets in remote atolls too small to appear on any map to the sprawling barrios and yacht filled marinas of Miami, Bob Shacochis charts a course across a Caribbean that no tourist will recognize.</p>...9780802199324_Grove Atlanticlibro_electonico_ecbeb0bf-f35d-3bf5-a928-da9b430ebbe3_9780802199324;9780802199324_9780802199324Bob ShacochisInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-3de49a0d-bd35-4547-accf-f1059e416bf6.epub2007-12-01T00:00:00+00:00Grove Atlantic