by Manuel Granados, Miguel Mejides, Antonio José Ponte, Zoé Valdés, Carlos Victoria · Ediciones del Bronce · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484530350
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«La sombra de La Habana» is a collection of short stories by Manuel Granados, Miguel Mejides, Antonio José Ponte, Zoé Valdés and Carlos Victoria, in paperback.
Five Cuban writers united by their fascination with Havana recreate a city that is both nostalgic and decadent. The stories take place in neighborhoods and underworlds, where marginal characters try to survive amid humor, cunning and eroticism, with the memory of pre-1959 Cuba and exile as a backdrop.
First edition in Barcelona, 2000; work conceived by Liliane Hasson; includes biographies of the authors.
For readers interested in contemporary Cuban narrative and in the different perspectives on Havana from the island and from exile.
Zoé Valdés is a Cuban novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger. She studied at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for the Delegación de Cuba at UNESCO in Paris and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the magazine Cine Cubano. She lives with her daughter in Paris. She has been married three times: with Cuban writer Manuel Pereira Quintero, Cuban government official José Antonio González and Cuban independent filmmaker Ricardo Vega.
