The Tribe

Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today.

Carlos Manuel lvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs thecrnica form — a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelisticforms — to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement.

Unique, edgy and stylishly written, The Tribe shows a society in flux, featuring sportsmen in exile, artists, nurses, underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting to make their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, dealers from the black market, as well as revelers and policemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language novelists.

'There is magic in these pages...[T]his book tells the actual story of Cuba as it exists today.' — Jon Lee Anderson

'lvarez does not try to instruct or speculate. He does not write on whether the Revolution succeeded or failed. He doesnot determine whether the leader was a hero or a tyrant. His book is not an explanation: it is ... the history of a country told through its people.' — Mara Teresa Hernndez, AP News

ISBN: 9781913097912 | Published: 19 July 2022 | Paperback | 336 pages