Furia del discurso humano, a novel in Spanish by Miguel Correa Mujica. ISBN 0-9714366-9-X, softcover. Correa’s narrative centers on a young man, Regino, who comes of age as an apparently gay writer in the machista vortex of the Cuban Revolution. Correa is an assistant professor of humanities at the City University of New York.

Breve historia de Cuba, a history in translation by Jaime Suchlicki. ISBN 0-9714366-8-1, French cover, 320 pages with photos. This is the first-ever publication in Spanish of the classic work Cuba: From Columbus to Castro, which has had five editions in English. Jaime Suchlicki directs the Cuban studies program at the University of Miami.

Leve historia de Cuba, a satire in Spanish by Enrique Del Risco Arrocha and Francisco García González. ISBN 0-9765096-0-1, softcover. Two young commentators have produced a spellbinding recreation of Cuban history, extending from the start of the last millennium—five centuries before Columbus’s landing—to a time five centuries from now.

Las jinetas compramos en boutiques, a novel in Spanish by Judith Morales Montes de Oca. ISBN 0-9765096-1-X, softcover. A candid and scathing account of Havana’s famous prostitutes from one of Cuba’s most highly praised writers. Morales won the country’s top literary award, the UNEAC Prize, before winning the lottery for a U.S. resident visa.

Cuba opción cero, a novel in Spanish by Victoria Quesada. ISBN 0-9765096-2-8, softcover. A revealing slice-of-life from Havana in the 1990’s, by a biologist who began writing it after being fired from her job for working in the human-rights movement. Victoria Quesada emigrated from Cuba in 1995 and teaches high school in Broward County, Florida.