Havana Noir (Akashic Noir) - Softcover

Achy Obejas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933354380 ISBN 13: 9781933354385

Publisher: AKASHIC BOOKS, 2008

Synopsis

To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical wreckage of sin, sex and noise, a parallel world familiar but exotic - and embargoed enough to serve as a release valve for whatever pulse has been repressed or denied. Features brand new stories by: Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Alex Abella, Miguel Mejides, Ena Lucia Portela, Mylene Fernandez Pintado, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Moises Asis, Arturo Arango, Mariela Varona Roque, Michel Encinosa Fu, Yoss, Lea Aschkenas, Achy Obejas, Mabel Cuesta, Arnaldo Correa, Oscar F. Ortiz and Yohamna Depestre.

About this title

About the Author:

Achy Obejas is the award-winning author of Days of Awe, Memory Mambo, We Came all the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?, and editor of Havana Noir. A long-time contributor to the Chicago Tribune, she was part of the 2001 investigative team that earned a Pulitzer Prize for the series, "Gateway to Gridlock."

Synopsis:

Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.

About this edition

• Publisher: AKASHIC BOOKS
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1933354380
• ISBN 13: 9781933354385
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355