by Julio Travieso Serrano · Editorial Renacimiento · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418818400
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El polvo y el oro recounts, through the life of a saga spanning six generations, the ups and downs of a family founded by a Spanish immigrant, from colonial times to the dawn of the Cuban revolution in the mid-20th century. The novel, nuanced by magical realism, reveals the imprint of ambition, Santería, slavery, eroticism, and death in the formation of Cuban identity, determined by a certain fatalism. The history of the island goes hand in hand with that of the Valle lineage, tracing a journey from the continent's independence movements at the end of the 18th century to the beginnings of the revolutionary process initiated by Fidel Castro and its consequences. The novel is also a song to the diaspora, whose survivors are left scattered like dust, without gold, across the world.
