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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Montero, Mayra
- ISBN: 9780312426736
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.90
- Number Of Pages: 272
- Publication Year: 2007