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The Cuban comedy : a novel

Title
The Cuban comedy : a novel / Pablo Medina.
Author
Medina, Pablo, 1948-
Publication
  • Los Angeles, California : Unnamed Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
205 pages; 20 cm
Summary
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 to a new way of life, post-revolution: there are spies and secret meetings, black marketeers, and censorship. Full of outlandish humor and insights into an often contradictory and kafkaesque regime, Medina brings 1960s Cuba to life through the eyes of Elena.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Magic realist fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Satirical fiction.
Call Number
JFD 20-980
ISBN
  • 9781944700874
  • 1944700870
OCLC
1049787304
Author
Medina, Pablo, 1948- author.
Title
The Cuban comedy : a novel / Pablo Medina.
Publisher
Los Angeles, California : Unnamed Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFD 20-980
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