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The Black Cathedral: A Novel Audiobook, by Marcial Gala Play Audiobook Sample

The Black Cathedral: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Kyla Garcia, Gary Tiedemann Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705212943

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

8

Longest Chapter Length:

56:58 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

38:32 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

47:55 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate

The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem.

In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral.

Told by a chorus of narrators—including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer—who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another's stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away.

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“Gala achieves an oral-history-like effect, producing a profound, and often humorous, meditation on how desires?religious, sexual, financial?clash in a small-town environment."

— New Yorker

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  • “Gala achieves an oral-history-like effect, producing a profound, and often humorous, meditation on how desires―religious, sexual, financial―clash in a small-town environment."

    — New Yorker
  • “A raucous, anguished, fast-paced story, tautly written and deeply rooted.”

    — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
  • Listeners will be hooked by this fast-paced and suspenseful audiobook about unrequited love and betrayal.

    — AudioFile

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About Marcial Gala

Marcial Gala is a novelist, a poet, and an architect and is a member of UNEAL, the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in 1999. The Black Cathedral received the Alejo Carpentier Award for best novel in 2012 and the Critics' Award in 2012. He was born in Havana in 1963 and lives in Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos.

About Kyla Garcia

Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.