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Article: Found in translation: The days of Spanish-language authors' anonymity in U.S. are coming to an end.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2006
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Byline: Tal Abbady
Nov. 12--Raquel Roque was sitting in her vendor's booth at the Miami Book Fair International when he shuffled by, unnoticed in the crowd: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the Cuban exile author of Tres Tristes Tigres (Three Trapped Tigers), a 1967 novel about Havana's pre-Fidel cabaret and gangster life that drew comparisons to the works of James Joyce.
For Roque, owner of the Spanish-language Miami bookstore Downtown Book Center, it was the ultimate celebrity sighting. "He was walking by like a regular Joe and he looked kind of lost," she said of the London-based author who died last year. "I said, 'Oh my God. That's Cabrera ...