TheNew York Timesbestselling debut novel by the author of the Folio Prize shortlistedThe Flamethrowers *ANew York Timesbestseller* *Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction*

Fidel and Raúl Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.

Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.

Rachel Kushners debut novel,Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and aNew York Timesbestseller. Her follow-up novel,The Flamethrowers, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Her fiction has appeared in theNew Yorker,Harpersand theParis Review. She lives in Los Angeles.