Tales from the Cuban Empire

Name: Tales from the Cuban Empire
Price: 12.42 USD
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ISBN: 9780872864078

ISBN-10: 0872864073

ISBN-13: 9780872864078

Edition: 2002

Authors: Antonio Jose Ponte, Cola Franzen, Antonio Josï¿½ Ponte

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In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba-its real and imagined place in the world-through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an underground metropolis in their own neighborhood, a traveler stranded in an airport restroom, a suspicious stranger listening to stories spun in a barbershop, and a Chinese butcher in love with a beautiful daughter of Ochun. This inventive brew of fantasy, popular religion, science and science fiction, travel adventure, and tall tales celebrates the Cuban spirit at home and abroad. Antonio Jose Ponte (born 1964 in Matanzas, Cuba) lives in Havana. He is the author of…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 9/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.20" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.242

Antonio Josï¿½ Ponte was born in 1964 in Matanzas, Cuba, and studied at the University of Havana. He worked for some years as an engineer and then as a screenwriter. In addition to writing short stories and fiction, Ponte has published prize-winning collections of poetry and essays.



Prologue: Plea for the Head of Scheherazade


Tears in the Congri


Because of Men


A Knack for Making Ruins


At the Request of Ochun


The Summer in a Barbershop


Epilogue: Plea for the Head of Mazarino