{"product_id":"9780786137251","title":"The Cigar Roller","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hypnotic portrayal of a Cuban cigar roller compelled to relive his worst failures in order to conjure his fairest memories \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraised by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003efor his “subtle and effective voice,” award-winning storyteller Pablo Medina has written a new novel, a radiant journey through the mind of Amadeo Terra, a Cuban cigar-factory worker confined in a Florida hospital after a stoke has left him paralyzed. His body no longer works, but his mind is very much alive, as is his ruthless and audacious wit. His only human contact is with the callous nurse who constantly scolds him, the orderly who barely acknowledges him, and the nun who prays for Amadeo’s salvation while he fantasizes about what’s under her habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day Nurse feeds him mango from a baby-food jar, a departure from the usual bland mush, and the taste of it on his tongue brings memories flooding back of his life in Havana. Once a master cigar roller in Cuba and an imperious patriarch of enormous appetites, Amadeo now confronts the long-buried facts of his previously unexamined life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cigar Roller \u003c\/i\u003eis a tour de force, an evocative portrait of a man whose life, once governed unapologetically by his most base urges, is now reduced mercilessly to its most basic functions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094457762032,"sku":"9780786137251","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780786137251_p0.jpg?v=1763660963","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780786137251","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}