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  • Havana Is a Really Big City: And Other Short Stories
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  • by Mirta Yáñez; edited by Sara E. Cooper; translations by Sara E. Cooper, Victoria McCard, Lizbeth Paravisini-Gebert, Claudette Williams, & Leslie Bary
  • 2010
  • Published by: Cubanabooks
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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.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. p. v
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xii-x
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  1. The Mourner
  2. pp. 1-4
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  1. The Escape
  2. pp. 5-7
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  1. The Discovery
  2. pp. 8-12
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  1. It's in Me Somewhere
  2. pp. 13-18
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  1. For Men Only
  2. pp. 19-23
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  1. We Blacks All Drink Coffee
  2. pp. 24-27
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  1. Havana is a Really Big City
  2. pp. 28-36
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  1. Go Figure
  2. pp. 37-45
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  1. The Beatles vs. Duran Duran
  2. pp. 46-58
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  1. Kid Bururú and the Cannibals
  2. pp. 59-66
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  1. Prophet of Doom
  2. pp. 67-77
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  1. The Blind Buffalo
  2. pp. 78-88
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  1. No Call of the Wild
  2. pp. 89-92
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  1. About the Translators
  2. pp. 93-98
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