“
Eduardo Santiago’s writing is graceful, sensuous and passionate, like
the rumba itself. In an interview, when asked how he writes,
Santiago replied, “...basically I just cut open a vein
and I write until I’m out of blood.”
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— Arlene Sanders, author of Tiger Burning Bright
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In our tenth issue, we are pleased to feature the work of Eduardo Santiago, whose
most recent novel, Midnight Rumba, won the coveted Beverly Hills Book Award
for best fiction. It also earned top honors at the prestigious New England Book
Festival and the Latino International Book Awards.
• Read an excerpt: “Havana, 1957”
• Read Sarah Rettger’s interview of
Santiago in this issue...
• Read the review by Arlene Sanders in this
issue...
“... One of Santiago’s greatest strengths as a writer is his remarkable
understanding of women and his ability to create deep, complex, and finely nuanced
female characters.”
• Starred review at:
www.kirkusreviews.com
(First paragraph erroneously refers to Santiago’s first novel, Tomorrow They
Will Kiss, though the remainder of the review is about Midnight Rumba.)
• Book details at our Bookshelf (including
bookseller links)
• From a review of Eduardo Santiago’s first novel:
“...in my opinion, [he] eventually will win the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished
fiction by an American author, and he may be the next writer of Cuban descent to do
so.
“Tomorrow They Will Kiss is right up there with other Pulitzer winners.
Santiago is young, and he has talent and dedication. And so it is, I believe, only
a matter of time.”
—Arlene Sanders, in Goodreads (29 January 2014)