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Author
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution who pass the time drinking a firewater so intense, all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and after a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, Elena wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Alexis Valďs escribe con profunda ternura sobre el nįo que fue y logra reflejar en estasp̀ginas no solo los ąos m̀s duros de su vida, sino transportar al lector a la Cuba de su infancia y adolescencia, con sus problemas, sus carencias, su dolor, pero tambǐn con una alegr̕a de vivir y la esperanza de que alg︢n d̕a todo ser̀ mejor. El pequęo Alexis es un nįo sensible y t̕mido, que vive con su madre, su hermano y su padrastro que le odia...
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