Papi: A Novel by Rita Indiana,Achy Obejas
By Rita Indiana,Achy Obejas
Drawing on her thoughts of a formative years cut up among Santo Domingo and visits together with her father amid the luxuries of the U.S., Rita Indiana mixes satire with a child’s mind's eye, horror with technology fiction, in a swirling story of a daughter’s love, the trap of crime and machismo, and the violence of the grownup international. Expertly translated into English for the 1st time via Achy Obejas, who renders the rhythmic lyricism of Indiana’s Dominican Spanish in language that propels the e-book ahead with the relentless beat of a merengue, Papi is livid, musical, and entire of wit—a passionate, overwhelming, and extremely human explosion of inventive virtuosity.
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