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An ambitious, panoptic novel about exile as both condition and state of being by a major young Cuban writer

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 daisy chains. From Havana to Mexico City to Miami, from New York to Paris to Berlin, whether toiling in a barber shop, roaring in Yankee Stadium, lost in the Louvre, intensely competing in a chess hall in Cuba, plotting a theft, or on a junket for emigre dissidents in Berlin, these characters learn that while they may seem to be on the move, in reality they are paralyzed, immersed in a fake war waged with little real passion.

The fractured narrative, filled with extraordinary portraits of ordinary people, reflects the disintegration that comes from being uprooted. At the same time it is full of tenderness, moments of joy and profound release. False War confirms Carlos Manuel Alvarez as one of the indispensable voices of his generation in Latin American letters.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: False War
• Author: ALVAREZ CARLOS MANUEL
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781644453636
• ISBN: 1644453630
• ID: 47060552
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. November 2025

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