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What is one to make of the plumber listed in the yellow pages under gasfitero (`gasfitter') or the restaurant menu that lists aristú (`Irish stew') as the main course and budín for its `pudding,' not to mention Chilean onces (`elevenses'): `afternoon tea or coffee.
Critics heap praise on Cuban-born Valdés' second novel: The "rambunctious new novel is an appetizingly rich stew, full of the varied flavors of Latin culture … sumptuous …exuberantly translated" (Anderson Tepper, the New York Times Book Review ). Spanning 50 years in the life of a country girl who moves to Havana, the book is "a messy, passionate indictment of Fidel Castro's Cuba, packed with grotesque caricatures, implausible crises and generous dollops of magic realism" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). (Read the first chapter here, courtesy of the New York Times .)
Saddam's perpetual war with the United States plays well domestically as Iraqis continue to stew over the damage left behind by the Gulf War defeat.
This is not the first time Cody Shearer's name has floated to the top of the murky stew of supposition, innuendo, and sleaze that passes for political discourse in America these days.
of Cruelty , for example, shows a number of women apparently encased in glass coffins; an exceedingly cryptic stew of geometric and biomorphic elements is called The Sexual Awkwardness