Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker JesUs DIaz. Born in Havana in 1941, DIaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In 1992 he took up residence as an exile in Berlin and later in Madrid, where he died in 2002. This is the first of his books to be translated into English.
Originally written in the 1970s, then rewritten and published simultaneously in Havana and Madrid in 1987, "The Initials of the Earth" spans the...
Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and f...
Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker JesUs DIaz. Born in Havana in 1941, DIaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In 1992 he took up residence as an exile in Berlin and later in Madrid, where he died in 2002. This is the first of his books to be translated into English.
Originally written in the 1970s, then rewritten and published simultaneously in Havana and Madrid in 1987, "The Initials of the Earth" spans the...
Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and f...