Carlos Manuel Álvarez

A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish...

"The characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's land. Some of them want to leave and can't, others do leave but never quite get anywhere. In this multivoiced novel, employing a dazzling range of narrative styles from noir to autofiction, Carlos Manuel Alvarez brings together the stories of many people from all walks of life through a series of interconnected...

Harvard, 2018. Ana siente que su tesis sobre El Salvador está en un punto muerto, al igual que su relación con Luis. La experiencia de crecer en familias exiliadas por la guerra civil creó entre ambos una conexión que parecía predestinada. Pero ¿qué habría sido de ellos si, años atrás, la historia de El Salvador hubiera tomado un rumbo diferente? Siguiendo las ambiguas pistas del defractor--una tecnología experimental que les muestra a...