Cuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Vol. 1 by Ann Louise Bardach, Katherine Silver (Editor)

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Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The seventeen stories in this volume-some of which appear in English for the first time-will take you on an odyssey through the country's rich past to its dynamic present, where it is poised at the brink of immense change. Arranged by the areas of Cuba they illuminate, these stories offer up a rich literary banquet.

Included is a piece by Reinaldo Arenas of Before Night Falls fame (now a major motion picture).

Ann Louise Bardach is the author of the forthcoming book Troubled Waters: The Havana-Miami Showdown (Random House). She has written extensively about Cuba for Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, the New Republic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other publications. She lives in Carpinteria, California.

Contributors include:

Reinaldo Arenas

Alejo Carpentier

Christina Garcia

Pedro Juan Gutierrez

Jose Lezama Lima

Achy Obejas

Vergilio Pinera

Zoe Valdes

and more

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Kirkus Reviews

The eighth in this engaging international series offers 22 short stories and excerpts from longer works, several previously unavailable in English. There are perhaps too many of the latter (novels by Jose Lezama Lima and Reinaldo Arenas seem particularly un-excerptable), though it's good to be pointed toward excellent recent books by Ernesto Mestre, Abilio Estevez, and Pedro Juan Gutierrez. The stories are generally superior-notably Lino Novas Calvo's thriller-like "The Dark Night of Ramon Yendia," Ana Menendez's plaintive "Her Mother's House," and the ultimate assimilation story: "We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?," by Achy Obejas (a witty, serious farce that's every bit as good as its title). On balance, a worthy addition to a splendid series.

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