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...
One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a murder mystery. But it's really a survivor's story. In a voice that blends gossip, storytelling, and literature, Z--the vivacious heroine of Portela's award-winning novel--relates her rum-soaked encounters with the lesbian underground, the characters carving up her home, and the terrifying-but-irresistible Moises. As entertaining as any detective drama, One Hundred Bottles is ultimately made real by very rough love, intense friendship, and something small that decides...
One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a murder mystery. But it's really a sur...
