by Miguel Barnet · Letras cubanas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420480640
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Oficio de ángel is a novel by Cuban writer Miguel Barnet, published in 1989. The story narrates the life of a middle-class young man in Havana during the 1940s to 1962, offering a vision of Cuban idiosyncrasy in a period of political and social changes. Through a fragmented memory, the author reconstructs a childhood and adolescence with a narrative style that immerses itself in the reverie of memory, resulting in a poetic and lyrical prose.
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.
