The Lady Matador's Hotel is the new novel by Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban.
This novel follows the lives of six very different men and women over the course of a week, all staying at or working at a very upscale hotel in an unnamed Central American capital. Some of their stories are dark and violent, corrupt and depressing, echoing the true history of Central America and its violent civil wars. Others are filled with passion and courage and poetry, without which no Latin American story would be in the least bit true.
The stories all circle around the charismatic central figure of Suki Palacios, a Japanese-Mexican-American bullfighter. Garcia has a wonderful way of letting the stories unfold and overlap, and the novel is filled with unexpected bits of humor throughout.
I cannot say I loved this book, it was painfully dark at times, but I really liked it.
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