Never through Miami - Paperback

by Roberto Quesada (Author)

Never through Miami: Elías Sandoval, the anxious protagonist of Quesada's charming, lighthearted short novel, is sweating bullets as he stands before curt immigration officials at Miami International Airport in a valiant attempt to get a six-month visa into America (...) Quesada's energetic prose makes this a swift, pleasing read-and nice reinforcement for anyone doubting the hopes and dreams powering America and its melting-pot population. -Publishers Weekly.Praise for Roberto Quesada's writing: "Roberto Quesada is a lively and gifted writer full of amusing and thought-provoking ideas." - Kurt Vonnegut"Quesada's frenetic, loping prose style" -The New York Times Book Review. "Quesada is at his inventive peak when recreating New York's bohemian Latino colony with illuminating clarity." - Library journal on The Big Banana

Author Biography

Roberto Quesada, whom the prestigious American writer Kurt Vonnegut has called, "A lively and gifted writer full of amusing and thought-provoking ideas", was born in Honduras and is the author of The Deserter (short stories, 1985), The ships (a novel, 1988) published by (Four Walls Eight Windows) and has enjoyed a great deal of success in the US. Big Banana, his third novel, was published in 1999 by (Arte Publico Press, University of Houston), with its edition in Spanish published by (Seix Barral, 2000). Never enter Miami was published by (Mondadori, 2002) and The Tightrope by (Alfaguara 2013). In 1996, he received The American Institute Award of Writers in the United States. He also received the National Journalism Award "Jacobo Carcamo", Honduras, 2009. He is an international analyst for HispanTV, RT (Russian Today). He's former diplomat of Honduras to the United Nations for 14 years. Quesada, currently lives in New York with his wife, Lucy Pagoada-Quesada a New York City Department of Education teacher and his eleven years old son, Roberto Quesada Jr., a young artist and City-wide winner of the 30th annual Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition in New York City with his book "Some Skyscrapers Are...," written and illustrated by Roberto Quesada Jr.