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- Havana Is a Really Big City: And Other Short Stories
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Cubanabooks
summary
This volume presents stories gathered from three decades of prize-winning writing by Havana-born Mirta Yañez. The collection has a complex yet unmistakable Cuban flavor and a characteristic preoccupation with the social, political, and economic particularities of the island and how these affect los cubanos. Catherine Davies notes that "Yañez writes about everyday life in Havana; her chatty, colloquial style full of light-hearted humour, whatever the theme, makes her fiction a delight to read". Themes of class, race, gender, and sexuality are artfully interwoven in humorous and poignant narratives that make the reader pause to rethink her/his views or assumptions about Cuba and about life. This groundbreaking collection of her work, most of which is available for the first time in English translation, includes La habana es una ciudad bien grande in its entirety as well as other selected stories.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xii-x
- The Mourner
- pp. 1-4
- The Escape
- pp. 5-7
- The Discovery
- pp. 8-12
- It's in Me Somewhere
- pp. 13-18
- For Men Only
- pp. 19-23
- We Blacks All Drink Coffee
- pp. 24-27
- Havana is a Really Big City
- pp. 28-36
- The Beatles vs. Duran Duran
- pp. 46-58
- Kid Bururú and the Cannibals
- pp. 59-66
- Prophet of Doom
- pp. 67-77
- The Blind Buffalo
- pp. 78-88
- No Call of the Wild
- pp. 89-92
- About the Translators
- pp. 93-98
Additional Information
ISBN
9781944176006
Related ISBN(s)
9780982786000
MARC Record
OCLC
933516578
Pages
98
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No