Eddie Vega
Cass Loyola, a merchant seaman, abandons the ocean seas to pursue literature and love at a button-down college in New York City. As he struggles to adjust to his new life, he is haunted by the woman he left behind in Cardiff â€” a bookbinder and practicing witch.,At once a seafaring novel, a New York novel, and Cuban novel, ,Awake Now, Sailor, includes pirate fights in the Bay of Bengal, gypsy cab rides into the dark heart of Brooklyn, a drunken mountain climb in Wales, cane cutting in Oriente de Cuba, and a smashed a guitar in a Havana radio station that ends a musical career. ,As a special treat, the book includes dÃ©cima campesinas, a poetic form popular in Cuba, and an original sea shanty translated into Welsh by British poet Menna Elfyn.
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Awake Now, Sailor