by Guillermo Cabrera Infante · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440702401
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«La Habana para un infante difunto» is the novel by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (608 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator recalls his youth in Havana and his sentimental and erotic experiences, in a nostalgic reconstruction of a lost city. The novel deploys a playful language, with humor, wordplay and references to Hollywood cinema, turning the narrative into a celebration of memory and culture.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante received the Cervantes Prize in 1997; the cover of this 1998 edition includes that mention.
For readers seeking a novel with humor and cultural references, within Cuban and Hispanic American narrative.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of the cult classic film Vanishing Point (1971).
