habana dura

– The novel is a trip to Cuba, and not to the Cuba of the beautiful beaches and fine tobaccos known to tourists, but to that of Maria and the many Cubans who grew up with the claws of the Special Period scratching their backs. In your scenes you will feel that you walk through the streets of Havana, a city that invents its present with the tears that the story leaves on her. You will meet women who will seduce you with the same grace that seduces you there in Cuba. You will enter the Afro-Cuban religion and appreciate the clarity of the blackest of its spells. You will encounter gossips, abusers, envious, rapists and as if the living were not enough, you will meet even the dead of the island.