The Cuban Comedy

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The Cuban Comedy

By: Pablo Medina

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

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Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter, Elena, longs to be a poet. After a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, she wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There, she encounters a population adjusting to a new way of life post-revolution: spies with secret meetings and black marketeers dealing with censorship.

Full of outlandish humor and insights into an often contradictory and Kafkaesque regime, author Pablo Medina brings 1960s Cuba to life through the eyes of Elena.

Pablo MedinaCynthia FarrellDreamscape Media, LLC

World Literature

Literary Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Witty

Satire

Genre Fiction

United States

Latino American