ARGONAUT BOOKS

What is the difference between an immigrant, someone living in exile, and a refugee? False War is an extraordinary novel by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, the leading Cuban writer of his generation.  Reviews 'The dissidents, migrants and exiles of False War travel the world in search of some kind of refuge, but the cities they arrive in are places of purgatory, allegorical waystations of the permanently displaced, where everyone is an outsider, caught between landfalls, hurrying nowhere: "Brightness inside, darkness outside - until we crash." This is a timeless and urgent work, in t...Read More