by Enrique Encinosa
ISBN 0971436665, Trade cloth, 7 x 9.5, 256 pages with photos, June 2004, $26
by Enrique Del Risco & Francisco García González
ISBN 0976509601, Trade paper, 288 pages, 6 x 9, July 2007, $23.95
Unvanquished is the first history in English on the resistance Cubans have waged against Castro's regime. This carefully documented narrative by a veteran historian allows the story to unfold in participants' own words. Unvanquished won an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Independent Publisher Awards.
Two writers, one in New York and the other in Havana, give a biting send-up of Cuba’s history.
by David Landau
ISBN 0971436614, Trade paper / softcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9, January 2003, $15
by David Landau
ISBN 0971436606, Trade paper / softcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9, January 2003, $15
David Landau's novel of the Cuban revolution is here translated to Spanish by Venezuelan-Cuban novelist Benigno Dou, who, said one reviewer, "creates a totally idiomatic rendering of Landau's text."
This narrative of espionage, romance and suspense recreates the early years of the Cuban revolution and the Bay of Pigs invasion, uncovering a slice of lost history. Commentators have called the novel "indispensable", "a precious jewel" and "a work of undoubted historic value".
by Teresa Dovalpage
ISBN 0971436673, Trade paper / French cover, 6 x 8.5, 208 pages, August 2004, $20
by Néstor Díaz de Villegas / translations by David Landau
ISBN 0971436622, Trade paper, 5.5 x 8, January 2003, $15
This powerfully constructed Spanish-language novel takes readers to the limits of language and experience. On a night in the year 2000, during one of Havana's enforced blackouts, four women in a Cuban family, aged eleven to ninety, confront their lives and each other as tragedy lurks outside their walls.
The Marquis de Sade serves as pretext for poetry that explores themes of revolution and liberty, order and chaos, reason and lasciviousness—"a scintillating romp that creates a rare tension," said one critic. The handsome Spanish-English bilingual format helped garner a "Best Book" citation from the 2004 Latino Book Awards.
by Miguel Correa Mujica
ISBN 097143669X, softcover, 6 x 9, 224 pages, April 2006, $19.95
Mateo's Progress / Jornadas de Mateo
by Alejandro Lorenzo / translations by Kaori
ISBN 0971436630, Trade cloth / embedded hardcover, 10.5 x 9, June 2004, $20
JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Single
Title bilingual E-S
Mateo is a shoemaker who witnesses vast transformations and reaches a
poignant wisdom about life on earth. Mateo's epic saga, earlier excerpted
in Mexico, is here presented in a full bilingual English-Spanish edition
whose physical appeal, as book and as illustration, is quick to register.
FICTION
A seemingly gay writer enters the machista vortex of the Cuban Revolution.
While still in manuscript, Furia del discurso humano won first prize
in a competition sponsored by the Miami-based Art Critics’ Association of
America (ACCA). A central writer in the so-called Mariel Generation that
also produced Reinaldo Arenas, Miguel Correa teaches literature at Hostos
College in the City University of New York. Juan Manuel Salvat, head of
Universal Publishers & Bookstore, says that Furia del discurso humano
is "one of the very best novels about Cuba."
by Arnoldo Tauler
ISBN 0971436657, Trade paper, 5.6 x 8.6, 296 pages, November 2004, $22.50
This historical novel in Spanish carefully recreates Cuba during the Ochoa affair of 1989, when Fidel Castro subjected the country's popular military hero to a show-trial and then had him executed. Tauler's suspenseful narrative depicts a kind of political intrigue that might be occurring in Cuba right now.
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