1 Brooklyn "Strange, exuberant, and altogether brilliant. What begins as the story of a religious family moving to a small Cuban town gradually becomes broader in scope, encompassing obsession and murder along the way." -Vol. The Black Cathedral might not be what you first expect, but its unpredictability serves as one of its many strengths." -Tobias Carroll, Literary Hub "Marcial Garcia's The Black Cathedral is told via a panoply of voices - all the better to narrate this expansive yet taut novel of faith, family, and violence. Taken together, they represent a cubist inquest into the soul of Cienfuegos." -Shaj Mathew, The New York Times "A story of family, an account of a transforming Cuba, an exploration of religious devotion, and a harrowing tale of a sinister man engaged in horrific acts. This chaotic, democratic bricolage - each voice vulgar and vulnerable in its own way - styles the novel as a series of interviews. Its narrators, more than a dozen in number, are usually granted a page at a time before other characters butt in, pick up the thread or offer their own spin on the same series of events.
Even as the novel charts the voyages of its vagabonds, it represents an attempt to draw the periphery into the center, steering us toward the provinces as it renovates the Cuban novel. "Accidental cannibals, tenderhearted killers, angst-ridden ghosts and well-behaved artists soon populate topsy-turvy universe. 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. Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba.
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