Sacrificio

Ernesto Mestre-Reed writes with the body awareness of a dancer. The visceral and lively descriptions in Sacrificio, Mestre-Reed’s third novel, have a physicality that renders his characters through a sense of touch as much as sight … With opulent and playful language, including keen bursts of Spanish, Sacrificio is a book in conversation with other books, probing its relationship to Cuba’s literary history in the Anglosphere … Sacrificio itself is many different books in one: a pandemic story, an intricate portrait of queer love, and a fever dream of place, time, and desire. Perhaps above all, Sacrificio is a spy novel that…redefines what a spy novel can be.

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