Cronicas de La Habana nuestra
Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires: Ediciones Colihue, (Colección: La Serpiente Emplumada. Narrativas de América), 2022. First Edition. Paperback. 220p., indices, wrps. New. Item #82005
ISBN: 9789505633616
Havana means a lot in Latin American history. Its strength penetrates so deeply into our identities that we feel that it is ours and belongs to all of us, that we know it thoroughly without, perhaps, having visited it. That is why we feel that, when we talk about it, we are in local territory: the capital city but also a name that encloses the bustle of every day, its sounds, smells, gestures, the codes that those who live and travel carry on. Chronicles of our Havana is a book that collects all that landscape in etchings that condense a world in a few lines, and also transforms anyone into a witness of the changes that technological advances and pandemic disasters leave as a mark on its architecture. With this work, Laidi Fernández de Juan confirms not only her place as one of the most influential Latina writers in the field of contemporary literature, but also the inevitability of her texts: she had to write about the Havana she knows so that we can inhabit it. in each of her words, seeing what she sees, living it as she lives it. Read aloud by the author, these chronicles take on all the flavor and humor that we will slowly reveal as we read a book that is at times funny, painful or laughing, always enlightening. (Luisa Valenzuela) living it as she lives it. Read aloud by the author, these chronicles take on all the flavor and humor that we will slowly reveal as we read a book that is at times funny, painful or laughing, always enlightening. (Luisa Valenzuela) living it as she lives it. Read aloud by the author, these chronicles take on all the flavor and humor that we will slowly reveal as we read a book that is at times funny, painful or laughing, always enlightening.
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