Sacrificio

<b>Set in Cuba in 1998 <i>Sacrificio </i>is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence loss and identity following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.</b><br><br>Cuba 1998: Rafa an Afro-Cuban orphan moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a caf&#233;. He is soon drawn into a web of ever-shifting entanglements with his boss&#146;s son the charismatic Renato leader of the counterrevolutionary group &#147;Los Injected Ones&#148; which is planning a violent overthrow of the Castro government during Pope John Paul II&#146;s upcoming visit.<br>&#160;<br>When Renato goes missing Rafa&#146;s search for his friend takes him through various haunts in Havana: from an AIDS sanatorium to the guest rooms of tourist hotels to the outskirts of the capital where he enters a phantasmagorical slum cobbled together from the city&#146;s detritus by Los Injected Ones.<br>&#160;<br>A novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse <i>Sacrificio </i>is a visionary work capturing the fury passion fatalism and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change.