It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away. Told by a chorus of narrators-including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer-who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another's stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral. In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness.
Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away.Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate Told by a chorus of narrators?including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer?who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. MaFSG, 2020 Split into a prism of countless fractured narratives, Marcial Gala’s The Black Cathedral pieces together the story of the religious Stuart family, who moves into the neighborhood of Cienfuegos, Cuba to begin construction on a Sacramentalist temple.The Black Cathedral received the Critics' Award and the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012 and was published in English translation by FSG in 2020. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Marcial Gala is a novelist, poet, and architect from Cuba. gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killerwho flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Galas The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate
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