Pig's Foot
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Carlos Acosta was born in Havana in 1973 and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Ballet, and has danced as a guest artist all over the world, winning numerous international awards. He is the author of the autobiography No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer’s Story and made his film debut in New York, I Love You.
www.carlosacosta.com
A Note on the Translator
Frank Wynne has won four major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize. He is also the translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Purgatory and won the 2012 Premio Valle Inclán prize for his translation of Marcelo Figueras’s Kamchatka.
www.frankwynne.com
By the Same Author
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer’s Story
Copyright © 2013 Carlos Acosta
English translation copyright © 2013 Frank Wynne
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Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Acosta, Carlos, 1973–
Pig's foot : a novel / Carlos Acosta ; Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
pages cm
Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
eISBN: 978-1-62040-081-2
1. Acosta, Carlos, 1973 — Translations into English. I. Wynne, Frank, translator. II. Title.
PQ7442.A36P5413 2014
863'.7—dc23
2013035126
First published in Great Britain in 2013
First U.S. Edition 2014
This electronic edition published in January 2014
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