Title:
An address in Havana : selected short stories = Domicilio habanero / by María Elena Llana ; translated by Barbara Riess.
Author:
Llana, María Elena, 1936- author.
Riess, Barbara, translator.
Llana, María Elena, 1936- Short stories. Selections. English.
Llana, María Elena, 1936- Short stories. Selections.
Publication Information:
Chico, California : Cubanabooks, [2014]
Call Number:
PQ7390.L474 A6 2014
Abstract:
"This bilingual collection highlights Llana's most critically successful stories. The female protagonists and the convergence of narrative times within a limited space - an address in Havana - present a compelling portrait of female subjectivity throughout the past fifty years."--Back cover.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780982786031
Physical Description:
228 pages ; 18 cm
Contents:
María Elena Llana's ghosts -- Los fantasmas de María Elena Llana -- Translator's note -- Notes on this selection -- [from Latticework/La reja (1965):] Unholy night, 1958 -- Nochemala -- The wrought iron gate -- La reja -- The two of us -- Nosotras -- Know thyself -- Conócete a ti misma -- [from Vedado homes/Casas del vedado (1938):] A Chinese fan -- Un abanico chino -- The gobelin tapestry -- El gobelino -- In the family -- En familia -- A slippery slope -- En la pendiente -- [from House of cards/Castillo de naipes (1998):] Rooms -- Los cuartos -- Eleggua spray -- Elegguá spray -- [from Rounds on the malecón/Ronda en el malecón (2004):] On returning -- Volver -- At the water's edge -- En la orilla -- A five-hundred-year-old rum -- Añejo cinco siglos -- About the author -- Sobre la autora -- About the translator -- Sobre la traductora.
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections. English
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