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ISBN-10: 1934768332
ISBN-13: 9781934768334
Edition: 2010
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Witty and humorously written in colloquial Cuban, One hundred bottles in a wall (2002), anatomy of a double murder, takes place in the '90s Havanna, amidst the crisis provoked by the collapse of the socialist bloc, in a marginal underground world, unheard of in touristic guides to Cuba. Zeta ¿Zee¿ main character and narrator, who manages to survive by illicit means, recounts her relation with Moises, former judge of the Supreme Court whose story relates to the «crash of a world and the fall of the gods», the collapse of utopia. Translated into English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Greek and Turkish, this is Ena Lucia Portela¿s best known novel. Born in 1972 in Havanna, Cuba,… where she lives nowadays, Portela takes a center place in Cuban present literature. A Havanna University Graduate in Classic Languages and Literatures, she writes both fiction and essays. Published in nine languages and more than twenty countries Portela was selected as one of the most influential 39 Latin American writers less than 39 years old. This edition includes a foreword, «About the black novel: poetry and politics in Cien botellas en la pared», by Iraida H. Lopez, that deals with police fiction in Cuba and Latin American, and proposes reading this work as a black novel. Hundreds of footnotes, by the author and by the Literary Editor, deal with lexical, cultural, literary and historic background references, making this edition a great opportunity to fully enjoy the fiction of this unique Cuban novelist.