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ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.Montero, Mayra is the author of 'Dancing to ''Almendra''', published 2007 under ISBN 9780312426736 and ISBN 0312426739.
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