Captain of the Sleepers A Novel [Paperback]

From the author ofThe Last Night I Spent With Youcomes a captivating tale of love, politics, and death (The Charlotte Observer)

For fifty years, Andr?s Yasin has carried a grudge against J. T. Bunker. Now eighty-three-years-old and dying, Bunker wants to tell his side of the story, the story of his affair with Estela, Andr?s's mother. As a child Andr?s knew Bunker as the Captain of the Sleepers --so called because he transported back to Vieques those who had died on the mainland but wished to be buried at home. But what really happened between Bunker and Estela, and between Estela and her one true love, a leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Movement? What did Andr?s witness, and what were the real circumstances of his mother's mysterious death?

Beautifully translated by Edith Grossman,Captain of the Sleepersis a startling tale of remembrance and reality, and Mayra Montero's finest book yet.

A wonderful story. New York magazine

Too engrossing to put down. The Nation

Excellent . . . A worthy peer of the likes of Mario Vargas Llosa. San Francisco Chronicle

Her best novel yet . . . Montero--who has a wizard's ability to transfix readers' attention as she peels away successive, deceptive layers of plot and meaning--has never written better than in this increasingly suspenseful tale of divided loyalties and lingering resentment and sorrow. Kirkus Reviews

Captain of the Sleepersis an evocative, haunting story, as fatalistic, moody and inevitable as a Greek tragedy. January Magazine

Montero artfully choreographs the confluence of family, romantic and revolutionary ardor. Publishers Weekly

Montero charts the chilling undercurrents of steamy Caribbean life in novels notable for their lyrical intensity and mystery, eroticism and social acumen. . . . A haunting tale of a small place overrun by a superpower and a small family shal³$