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Title: View of Dawn in the Tropics, a Novel by G. Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Cabrena Infante, G. Cabrera Infante, Suzanne J. Levine ISBN: 0-916870-37-5 Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co Pub. Date: December, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A warped history lesson
Comment: A cracked, tragic, wickedly funny overview of Cuban history, this is not quite a novel, nor a short-story collection, nor a series of prose-poems... I'm not certain what to make of it, really. The book is composed of a series of brief vignettes, ranging from exactly one sentence to several pages, which essentially act as snapshots of various incidents in Cuban history. It takes in every era of "that long, sad, unfortunate island" and includes along the way an awful lot of tyranny, warfare, and bloodshed, which the author seems to think constitutes the spine of his native land's history.

All of this may not sound like your idea of fun, and I'll admit that the book sometimes lapses into a monotonous litany of executions and similar nastiness. But G. Cabrera Infante is a genuinely funny guy, who can put more pitch-black humor in one page than an Evelyn Waugh can pack into fifty. Some of the episodes here are little masterpieces of concision. The author puts forth his rancorous vision with impressive skill, which makes this book worth reading.