{"product_id":"9781558492615","title":"A View from the Mangrove","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this masterful collection of short stories, a celebrated Cuban writer continues his imaginative exploration of the genesis of the modern Caribbean world. Intent on recovering the interior history (la infra-historia) of this astonishingly diverse region, Antonio Benítez-Rojo ranges widely across time and geography. He also experiments with a variety of narrative techniques and prose styles, each intended to capture some unique aspect of the Caribbean's heterogeneous, polyrhythmic cultural heritage. Thus \"The Broken Flute\" centers on a tragic anthropological reflection; \"Windward Passage\" on the confessions of a guilty priest stationed in Hispaniola; \"Summer Island\" on events surrounding the colonization of St. Kitts; and \"A View from the Mangrove\" on the troubled days of a soldier during Cuba's War of Independence. The result is historical fiction of the first order, a vivid tapestry of characters and contexts. Whether describing the world through the eyes of a seventeenth-century African slave or an English slave trader, a French buccaneer or a Spanish official, an Aztec god's avatar or a Haitian grand blanc, Benítez-Rojo displays a rare gift for resurrecting the past in all its chaotic and compelling immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035532607728,"sku":"9781558492615","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781558492615_p0.gif?v=1763757278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781558492615","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}