by Miguel Barnet · Vintage Español · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679768487
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«Canción de Rachel» is the historical novel by Miguel Barnet, published by Vintage Español in paperback (142 pages, in Spanish).
The novel reconstructs the life of Rachel, a vedette at the Teatro Alhambra who dazzles in the twenties and thirties in Havana. Between memories, testimonies and fiction, Miguel Barnet portrays the city's musical and nocturnal atmosphere, with its lights, its passions and its social tensions.
The Vintage Español edition is from 1996; the novel originally appeared in 1991.
Recommended for readers interested in Latin American history and literature, especially Cuban.
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.
