Cubanisimo! The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature

Name: Cubanisimo! The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature
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ISBN: 9780385721370

ISBN-10: 0385721374

ISBN-13: 9780385721370

Edition: 2003

Authors: Cristina Garcï¿½a, Cristina García, Cristina Garcia

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Description:

This work gathers Cuban stories, essays, poems and novel excerpts that demonstrate the richness and depth of a great national literature.

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.95" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction



"Love in the City"



from War Diaries



"Tobacco and Sugar" from Cuban Counterpoint



A View from the Mangrove



The Hill of Mambiala



"Eternity"



"Certainty"



Prologue from The Kingdom of This World



Journey Back to the Source



"Life in the Woods" from Biography of a Runaway Slave



Lorca the Rainmaker Visits Havana



"I Heard Her Sing" from Three Trapped Tigers



"Love, Attributed City"



The Walk



Chapter VIII from Paradiso



"Self-portrait of the other"



"A prayer for the end of the century"



The Founders: Alfonso



As I Am ... As I Was



Josephine Baker in Cuba



The Face



Six Mambos from Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way



from From Cuba with a Song



from Before Night Falls



The Ivory Trader and the Red Melons



"The Bakery Administrator's Daughter": from The Lazarus Rumba



"Love Song for Difficult Times"



"The Exterminating Angel"



from Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire



In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd



"What the Body Told"



Notes about the Authors


A Personal Discography