Shango

Shango

  • Author: Curtis, James Roberto
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558850965
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518502170
  • eISBN Epub: 9781518503146
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2017
  • Pages: 200

Miguel is Cuban-American, with the accent on American. But beneath the surface of his sun-drenched Miami lifestyle lurks an evil that threatens to destroy him. The chance reading of a newspaper article reporting a stolen skull and the ritualistic murder of a petty drug dealer pushes Miguel into an underworld where his cultural roots grab him like tentacles. His newly kindled compulsion to learn more about his culture brings him pleasure in the sensuous beauty of Ileana and pain in the enticing danger of voodoo.

Thrust into a tailspin world dominated by santería, the Afro-Caribbean religion of his native island, Miguel and Ileana must find their way among mysterious cult initiations, drum ceremonies to invoke African deities, and ultimately, a hair-raising confrontation with the terrible god Shangó. Chock full of fascinating characters, from the absent minded professor to the touch but sentimental detective, from the inept thugs Hermán and Dago to the malevolent Rosa, and with the added intrigue of Afro-Caribbean religious rituals, Shangó is spellbinding and engrossing.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • 1. An immanence of evil
  • 2. Ain´t Billy dreamin´?
  • 3. Too cool
  • 4. The seven african powers
  • 5. Coconut-headed god
  • 6. An old cop
  • 7. The assignment
  • 8. Candyman
  • 9. Downtown
  • 10. Ile de las orishas
  • 11. Ceremony of the collares
  • 12. Cherry pink and apple blossom white
  • 13. Brujos
  • 14. Jungle dreams
  • 15. Oh when the saints
  • 16. Out with the old, in with the new
  • 17. That old white magic
  • 18. Keep´em closed
  • 19. The two Ileanas
  • 20, Power of the prenda
  • 21. Oh. What a party!
  • 22. Stone crabs and key lime pie

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