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¿Es el autor el protagonista de las pesadillas que relata? ¿En qué otra ciudad deberá batallar con sus fantasmas? El lector tiene la última palabra.

Franz Kafka meets Raymond Chandler for a good laugh in The Grave Robber, a provoking book of short fiction bringing you a blend of humor, mystery and, at times, the truly macabre. A definite page-turner you will not put down.

Published posthumously in Havana, the Obra Poetica de Emilio Ballagas was out of print for fifty-seven years. It is the most comprehensive collection of the works of one of Cuba's -and Latin America's- greatest poets, including scattered verse not published in book form during the author's life. Since then, only a few spurious collections of Ballagas' poetry have been published both in the island and abroad. This edition is not only true to th...

Horror and the bizarre abound in this book of short fiction by Manuel Ballagas, one of the best Cuban-American writers of our time.

Meet Manny, a character you will never forget. He's a perennial refugee in La Saguesera, Little Havana's hottest spot, and his adventures are as deadly as funny. It seems that he will only rest when he dies.

Newcomer' opens an uncanny window to the hopes and struggles of newly-arrived immigrants in the United States. With a language that combines humor and wit, Manuel Ballagas looks back at his first years in America, and reflects on all the hard work it took him to succeed as a journalist.

¿Quién mató a Virgilio Piñera, padre del teatro moderno cubano? ¿Un simple ataque cardiaco o la Seguridad del Estado? ¿O fueron la indeferencia y la complicidad de sus colegas aterrorizados? En Pájaro de Cuenta, el autor ofrece una versión alterna de los penúltimos días de Piñera -o alguien que se llama como él-, en que la ficción se mezcla con la realidad -y muchas veces la suplanta- para arrojar nueva luz sobre el llamado Quinquenio Gris, un...

Someone experiences a sex change on a round trip to Havana. Somebody else switches passports, never to return. Yet one more visits his former home in Cuba and bumps into a peculiar tenant. The stories in Malas lenguas are the narrative of the comings and goings of a never ending, banal exile, threaded with the salt of rotten memories.