Eduardo del Llano

Esta antología pretende mostrar el actual desarrollo de la cuentística escrita por mujeres en Cuba. Haciendo un recorrido por las promociones de narradores en activo dentro del amplio fenómeno de la narrativa cubana aquí se reúnen cuentos de las más importantes creadoras que se conocen, permitiendo al lector una indagación crítica en las zonas temáticas, estilísticas, así como en las preocupaciones sociales de quienes protagonizan hoy la cultura isleña. Narradoras consideradas clásicas por la crítica literaria nacional comparten estas páginas junto a un grupo bien numeroso y significativo de esas otras jóvenes escritoras que hoy despuntan, removiéndolo todo con propuestas mucho más osadas por el estilo, los temas, asuntos y formas que ocupan.

jóvenes cuentistas de la isla

Voces cubanas

Daniel Chavarria

Irina J. Davidenko

Ahmel Echevarría Peré

Jorge Enrique Lage

 Laidi Fernández de Juan

 Eduardo Heras León

 Cinthia R. Paredes

Francisco López Sacha 

Eduardo Angel Santiesteban

When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics to fully comprehend… On the day of their graduation, a group of students spend the night drinking around the ‘Fountain of Youth’, ironically celebrating the bright future that doesn’t await them… The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana’s citizens have had to endure as a result of their country’s political isolation – from the hardships of the ‘Special Period’, to the pitfalls of Cuba’s schizophrenic currency system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods – from the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs of the Malecón and Vedado – these stories also demonstrate the defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Séamas Carraher.

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