Candela's Secrets and Other Havana Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Cover of the book Candela's Secrets and Other Havana Stories by Betty Viamontes, Betty Viamontes
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Author: Betty Viamontes ISBN: 9781370541331
Publisher: Betty Viamontes Publication: July 29, 2016
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Betty Viamontes
ISBN: 9781370541331
Publisher: Betty Viamontes
Publication: July 29, 2016
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

From the author of the highly rated "Waiting on Zapote Street: Love and Loss in Castro's Cuba," an anthology that will take readers to Cuba and will keep them glued to each page. This collection is an exploration of social issues through stories and narrative poems, most of which are set on the location of the author’s first novel, Waiting on Zapote Street. Meet the married woman who sells her body to tourists, the rafters who leave the coasts of Havana in search of freedom, the orphan boy who struggles to cope with the sudden loss of his parents. This anthology includes some of the characters of Waiting on Zapote Street, sometimes as protagonists, others in supporting roles. Candela’s Secrets and Other Havana Stories shows the best and worst of human behavior. In it, readers step into the streets of Havana and witnesses the problems that plagued Cuban society, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s: prostitution, discontent, violence, and a deteriorating infrastructure.

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From the author of the highly rated "Waiting on Zapote Street: Love and Loss in Castro's Cuba," an anthology that will take readers to Cuba and will keep them glued to each page. This collection is an exploration of social issues through stories and narrative poems, most of which are set on the location of the author’s first novel, Waiting on Zapote Street. Meet the married woman who sells her body to tourists, the rafters who leave the coasts of Havana in search of freedom, the orphan boy who struggles to cope with the sudden loss of his parents. This anthology includes some of the characters of Waiting on Zapote Street, sometimes as protagonists, others in supporting roles. Candela’s Secrets and Other Havana Stories shows the best and worst of human behavior. In it, readers step into the streets of Havana and witnesses the problems that plagued Cuban society, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s: prostitution, discontent, violence, and a deteriorating infrastructure.

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