The Book of Havana: A City in Short Fiction
English
By (author): Ahmel Echevarria Pere Cinthia Paredes Daniel Chavarria Eduardo A. Santiesteban Eduardo Heras Leon Francisco Lopez Sacha Irina J. Davidenko Jorge Enrique Lage Laidi Fernandez De Juan
The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havanas citizens have had to endure as a result of their countrys political isolation from the hardships of the Special Period, to the pitfalls of Cubas schizophrenic currency system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods from the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs of the Malecón and Vedado these stories also demonstrate the defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Séamas Carraher.
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