THOMAS SANCHEZ

Cuba en 1957. La présence américaine est à son apogée : les casinos illuminés, les hôtels luxueux, les boîtes de nuit scandaleuses fleurissent. La riche clientèle en mal de dépaysement défile sur le

En la Nochevieja de 1957, una bomba terrorista estalla en el famoso club Tropicana de La Habana. King Bongó, un pícaro cubanoestadounidense, torturado por un misterioso pasado y poseído por un mítico talento musical, va en busca de los culpables y de su hermana, conocida como la Pantera, la mas exotica artista de variedades de La Habana, desaparecida en la explosion. En su recorrido por el laberinto de calles coloniales, zonas de prostitucion, callejones del barrio chino, pretenciosos clubes de campo y opulentos casinos de La Habana, Bongo se ve atrapado por otras complicadas y extravagantes vidas (matones estadounidenses que traman un asesinato politico, decadentes estrellas de cine con sus cebos de amantes adolescentes, profeticos limpiabotas y camareras de hotel dispuestas a sacrificar sus vidas por la causa social correcta, una hermosa celebridad estadounidense que teje una red de intrigas eroticas...), y tambien, con mayor peligro, por Humberto Zapata, un siniestro y maquiavelico agente de la policia secreta, con quien Bongo tendra un explosivo enfrentamiento final. Thomas Sanchez reimagina un mundo de exuberante sensualidad, donde las culturas cubana y estadounidense chocan en una fascinante novela de intensas imagenes.

Rabbit Boss is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature. A novel of dreams dying, the loss of power, the rebirth of the spirit, it is the most brilliant fictional evocation of the American West ever written. Powerful and exalting, Rabbit Boss tells the story of four generations of Washo in the California and Nevada Sierra.

Dans Le Jour des Abeilles, Thomas Sanchez évoque la violence du désespoir et la grandeur élégiaque de deux vies transformées par l'amour et par l'exil. Un Américain, professeur d'histoire de l'art, se rend en Europe afin de découvrir pourquoi un célèbre peintre espagnol a abandonné en Provence, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, cette belle Française qui n'était autre que sa muse. Il déterre ainsi par hasard un secret enfoui depuis un demi-siècle : ce serment conservé avec soin, ce sortilège teinté d'érotisme qui a résisté à tout, même à la mort. Deux amants pris dans la machine infernale de l'histoire et dont l'univers implose sous la férocité de leur passion, tandis qu'au même moment le monde extérieur explose sous le coup de la guerre globale. Explorant tout aussi bien la France occupée, les faits de ces résistants qui luttent dans l'ombre, que la retraite contemporaine du peintre sur l'île de Majorque, le professeur américain met au jour une passion amoureuse qui ne peut être dissociée de l'art et de la politique. Il se retrouve au cœur d'un mystère qui l'oblige à sonder l'énigme de son propre désir, d'où il émane que l'Histoire est tout autant écrite par ceux qui aiment que par ceux qui se battent.

Havana, New Years Eve 1957, a terrorist bomb rips through the Tropicana nightclub. King Bongo, a rogue Cuban-American, tortured by a mysterious past and possessed of a mythic musical talent, goes on the hunt for the culprits, and for his sister, Cubas most exotic showgirl, who disappeared in the explosion. Navigating Havanas maze of Colonial backstreets, red-light districts, swank country clubs, and opulent casinos, Bongo encounters an outrageous cast of charactersAmerican hit men, decadent movie stars, prophetic shoeshine boys, and a beautiful American socialite. At the center of the mystery is a sinister secret police operative with whom Bongo is destined to have a lethal showdown.

Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchezs Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the Ameri

"Mile zero" marks the location of Key West -- the island that defines the end of the American road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds collide. On this island, with its cruel legacy of slave trade and Latin revolution, and its turbulent present of marijuana millionaires, threadbare illegal immigrants, and hard-luck treasure hunters, lives St. Cloud, an American expatriated in his own country, a fugitive from the unresolved anguish of his generation. Chronicling St. Clouds dangerous reawakening, Mile Zero illuminates the inward and outward tumult of our time in a huge, startling, and profoundly felt novel.

In this story of an astonishing love, Thomas Sanchez portrays the violence, hope, and grandeur of lives transformed by war and exile. At the heart of the novel are Zermano, a world-famous Spanish painter, and his beautiful French muse, Louise Collard -- whose lives are torn apart by the German invasion of France in World War II. Leaving Louise in Vichy-controlled Provence, Zermano returns to occupied Paris. But while he eventually goes on to celebrity and fortune, Louise disappears into obscurity.Fifty years later, after Louises death, an American scholar arrives in the south of France seeking the truth about the lovers tempestuous romance and sudden separation. Why did the painter abandon the young beauty? What was the cause of her lifelong reclusiveness? What dark mysteries were being concealed by the ill-fated couple? By chance, the professor finds a cache of correspondence -- Zermanos letters to Louise in her remote mountain village, and her intentionally unmailed letters to him in Paris. In their vivid, wrenching contents he uncovers secrets that Louise kept even from Zermano about her wartime experience: the dangers of her participation in the Resistance, and her complicity with one of its leaders, the Fly; her struggles to elude a sadistic officer who hunts her for political and personal reasons; her lyrical intimacy with a mystical beekeeper. Louise is forced to make a fateful decision between the love for her man, and the ultimate sacrifice for her country.In a powerful climax, the scholar is compelled to journey to Mallorca, where Zermano is rumored to be living in self-imposed exile. Determined to reveal Louises fate to the painter, our narrator does not suspect that he, too, will be forced to confront the enigma of his own desire.

From the author of Mile Zero come a heart-racing, power-packed thriller" (San Francisco Chronicle) set in Key West that illuminates a world of dark desires, hidden truths, and colliding destinies at Americas famous southernmost continental point.Key West is being terrorized by a series of bizarre murders committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin. With each new kill, it becomes clearer that the skeleton-clad executioner has an ecological agenda. Everyone dreads becoming the killers next victim: the rapacious developers, the ruthless scammers, and the common folk undertaking heroic acts to save their community. As the clock counts down to the end of hurricane season, the town will come together in a final dramatic explosion of fear, rage, and striking revelations.

Havana, New Years Eve 1957, a terrorist bomb rips through the Tropicana nightclub. King Bongo, a rogue Cuban-American, tortured by a mysterious past and possessed of a mythic musical talent, goes on the hunt for the culprits, and for his sister, Cubas most exotic showgirl, who disappeared in the explosion. Navigating Havanas maze of Colonial backstreets, red-light districts, swank country clubs, and opulent casinos, Bongo encounters an outrageous cast of charactersAmerican hit men, decadent movie stars, prophetic shoeshine boys, and a beautiful American socialite. At the center of the mystery is a sinister secret police operative with whom Bongo is destined to have a lethal showdown.

ONE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLES 100 GREATEST WESTERN NOVELS From the author of the first annual California Classics Litquake Barbary Coast Award, comes the story of four generations of the Washo in Nevada and Eastern Californiaa story of dreams, dying, the loss of power, death, and apotheosis."Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective and infinite compassion."National Observer The Indian experience of the last 120 years of a size and scope that is awesome. Sanchez is a man of tremendous vision. Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesRabbit Boss is about the doomed hunter Gayabuc, whose first sight of the white man is his witness to the great disaster of the Donner Party in 1846. The time of Gayabucs son, Captain Rex, is set against the gold and silver filled mountains of the Sierra. Hallelujah Bob, the surviving son of Captain Rex, tries to live the sacred life on the shores of Lake Tahoe, but he is isolated from his past and doomed to an alien future. It is against a landscape of despair that Joe Birdsong inherits the once honored position of Rabbit Boss, beginning his astounding flight back through time.This is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature, a novel in which the tragic experience of the American Indian is made real and profoundly moving.