Cuba: A Traveler's Literary CompanionAnn Louise Bardach Whereabouts Press, 2002 - 234 pages The best modern short fiction by Cuban writers are arranged by region to illuminate this country for travelers. Many stories appear in English for the first time. Contributors include Reinaldo Arenas, Alejo Carpentier, Gullermo Cabrera Infante, Christina Garcia, Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Jose Lezama Lima, and Achy Obejas, among others. |
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... eyes , every- body was hunting something . That was what frightened him most : in everybody's eyes he could see the hunting instinct . The slightest reason , the slightest justification , would have been enough to unleash the rage he ...
... eyes , every- body was hunting something . That was what frightened him most : in everybody's eyes he could see the hunting instinct . The slightest reason , the slightest justification , would have been enough to unleash the rage he ...
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... eyes . In it , Pilar records everything . This pleases Celia . She closes her eyes and speaks to her granddaughter , imagines her words as slivers of light piercing the murky night . The rain begins again , softly this time . The finned ...
... eyes . In it , Pilar records everything . This pleases Celia . She closes her eyes and speaks to her granddaughter , imagines her words as slivers of light piercing the murky night . The rain begins again , softly this time . The finned ...
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... eyes , producing that creaking noise , like the noise of the house at the moment when the flames made the strongest posts totter and the flashing frame came down in an enormous crackling that pierced the night like a vol- ley of ...
... eyes , producing that creaking noise , like the noise of the house at the moment when the flames made the strongest posts totter and the flashing frame came down in an enormous crackling that pierced the night like a vol- ley of ...
Table des matières
Senel Paz Strawberry and Chocolate | 3 |
José Lezama Lima Paradiso | 15 |
Antonio José Ponte In the Cold of the Malecón | 24 |
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