El viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos gathers nine stories and a testimonial essay by Ena Lucia Portela, who began to publish in the 1990's and has been recognized as one of the outstanding stars of recent Cuban fiction. Portela was born Dec. 19, 1972 in Havana, where she still lives. She is the author of the novels "El pajaro: pincel y tinta china" (1999), "La sombra del caminante" (2001), "Cien botellas en una pared" (2002; winner that year of the Jaen Novel Prize awarded by the Caja de Ahorros of Granada, Spain, and 2003 winner of the Prix Litteraire Deux Oceans Grinzane Cavour awarded...
El viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos gathers nine stories and a testimonial essay by Ena Lucia Portela, who began to publish in the 1990's and has...
Soulfully researched and elegantly written, the personal and the critical converge into a reading of Cuban American memoirs by one-and-a-halfers, those in a generation who left the island in childhood and early adolescence. Eliana S. Rivero, author of Discursos desde la diaspora Timely and salient. In addition to tracing the trajectory of narratives of return, this study puts into relief the idea that there is no singular process of return. Andrea O Reilly Herrera, author of Cuban Artists across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent against the House Outstanding. Lopez s...
Soulfully researched and elegantly written, the personal and the critical converge into a reading of Cuban American memoirs by one-and-a-halfers, thos...
