Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli's is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny. Moving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams.īurdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous.ĭespite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. His older brother is violent his philandering father doesn't understand him his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. Anne Kushner Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Date JanuFiction LGBTQ Stories Literature in Translation A tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, and believing himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology. At the heart of this incandescent tales burns. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. Call Me Cassandra is Marcial Galas masterpiece, blending Greek myth with the Cuban intervention in Angola.
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