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作者： Mayra Santos-Febres 著
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出版时间： 2002-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 273印刷时间： 2005/07/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781594480010包装： 平装内容简介
Julian Castrodad is an ex-reporter and failed novelist working the night shift at the Motel Tulan. He rents rooms by the hour. His rules: never notice who checks in - and never let them notice you. A sleepwalker who's lost nearly everything - his girl, his hopes for a career as a writer, his dreams - Julian has no trouble cultivating invisibility. But tonight his subtle tricks at navigating this clandestine world unravel with the arrival of three strangers: Chino Pereira, a notorious drug dealer; labor attorney Efrain Soreno; and a mysterious woman known only as M, who arrives in a rented Mercedes to spend the night with a brandy glass and a bottle. Before morning, one of them will be dead, two will be missing, and Julian will feel compelled to discover why. What they have in common is something Julian never imagined - a secret and dangerous world better left to the shadows.
From Publishers Weekly
In Latina author Santos-Febres's intriguing noir debut, Julián Castrodad, an aspiring writer who's been fired from his newspaper job, finds "temporary" work as a night clerk at San Juan, Puerto Rico's Motel Tulán, where sex, intrigue and desperation are frequent customers. This night world is unlike anything Castrodad has experienced, from the elderly man with the beautiful boy to the mysterious woman who arrives alone (and stays that way until Castrodad falls under her spell). Castrodad's guide to this universe is clerk Tadeo Chamdeleau, who teaches him the tricks of the trade. The motel's residents have plenty of fervid dreams, which clash with reality, then break and reform in kaleidoscopic fashion. Particularly impressive is the author's description of the "tambor," which Castrodad attends as a guest and where Santeria, the Afro-Caribbean religion, is celebrated in a fashion that stretches the meaning of diversity to new lengths.
From Booklist
Julian Castrodad is on a long, slow, downward slide that leads him to the seedy Motel Tulan in San Juan, where he works as a desk clerk on the night shift. He has recently been fired from his newspaper job, is on the outs with his girlfriend, and is trying to convince himself that his new job will provide him with the material to kick-start the novel he has been struggling to write for years. As is required in a motel that rents rooms by the hour, he learns to disappear into his surroundings while registering every detail. Among his regular customers are a controversial union organizer, an enigmatic drug dealer, and a secretive, sultry woman called M, who checks in every Wednesday. When one of them ends up murdered, Julian emerges from his exhausted state with a new drive to discover the hidden connections among the motel's regulars. Literature professor Santos-Febres, touted as an emerging author of Latin noir, writes strikingly about lost souls and lost dreams in sensual, evocative prose tinged with desperation.
--Joanne Wilkinson
作者简介
Mayra Santos-Febres (born 1966) is a Puerto Rican professor of literature, poet, novelist, and critic who has garnered fame at home and abroad.
One of her most famous books is Sirena Selena (Selena the Siren), in which she describes the life of a teenaged homosexual male who works in the streets and has talent in singing.
Santos-Febres holds an M.A. and Ph.D. (1991) from Cornell University. Her work has been translated into French, English, German, and Italian, and is presented in many universities in the United States by college teachers.
Santos-Febres is currently teaching at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has announced plans to release several books in 2005, among them a collection of essays called Sobre Piel y Papel and also a novel about Isabel la Negra.
