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Havana Noir (Akashic, 2007: www.akashicbooks.com) is the most recent project to come from Achy Obejas. A groundbreaking collection of crime stories set in the Cuban capital, it features work by writers on and off the island, including Leonardo Padura, Mylene Fernández, Miguel Mejides, Carolina García-Aguilera, Pablo Medina and a dozen more of the most exciting Cuban and Cuban-American writers today. Havana-born Achy is the author of Days of Awe, a critically acclaimed novel (Ballantine/Random House, 2001) about the tensions between public and private identities set against the backdrop of the Jewish community in Cuba. Her other books include Memory Mambo, a novel, and We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?, a collection of short stories (both from Cleis: www.cleispress.com). Back |
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