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Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two
Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the
central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary
Cuba. The other, her friend’s daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves
Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami A history full
circle?
Circa l’autore
Born in 1943 in Santa Clara, Cuba,
Pedro Prez Sarduy is a poet, writer and journalist, now resident in London.
His poetry includes Surrealidad
(1967), Cumbite and Other Poems
(1990), and Malecn Sigloveinte
(2005), and is featured in The Oxford
book of Caribbean Verse (2005). He co-edited with Jean Stubbs Afro Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in
Contemporary Cuba (University Press of Florida, 2000) and Afro-Cuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on
Race, Politics and Culture (1993); work in progress includes Journal in Babylon, chronicles on contemporary
Britain. In 2008, he was awarded Le Prix du Livre Insular Ouessant for the
French version of this novel, Les bonnes
de la Havane; and in 2009, he was awarded the UNESCO Victor Hugo medal for
his writings, which contribute significantly to the protection and promotion
of the rights of man/woman and the oppressed.
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