Telex from Cuba »

Rachel Kushner's debut novel, "Telex from Cuba", was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2008. Her fiction and essays have appeared in "Fence", "Bomb", "The Believer", "Grand Street", the "New York Times", and "Artforum". She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles, where she is at work an a second novel.

An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading to Castro's revolution, this masterful debut will put Rachel Kushner on the map of American fiction.

The Washington Post - Carolyn See

Wonderful reviews have been coming thick and fast for Telex From Cuba, and they're more than well deserved. This first novel by Rachel Kushner is a pure treat from the cover to the very last page. It's the kind of thing you should stock up on to give sick friends as presents; they'll forget their arthritis and pneumonia, I promise, once they walk into a land that's gone now, but not yet quite forgotten: Cuba in the last few years before Fidel Castro took over…A world we'll never see again, any part of it. Rachel Kushner uses her considerable powers to bring it back for us, one last time.