Böcker av Manuel Ballagas

¿Es el autor el protagonista de las pesadillas que relata? ¿En qué otra ciudad deberá batallar con sus fantasmas? El lector tiene la última palabra.

Franz Kafka meets Raymond Chandler for a good laugh in The Grave Robber, a provoking book of short fiction bringing you a blend of humor, mystery and, at times, the truly macabre. A definite page-turner you will not put down.

Published posthumously in Havana, the Obra Poetica de Emilio Ballagas was out of print for fifty-seven years. It is the most comprehensive collection of the works of one of Cuba's -and Latin America's- greatest poets, including scattered verse not published in book form during the author's life. Since then, only a few spurious collections of Ballagas' poetry have been published both in the island and abroad. This edition is not only true to the original Obra Poetica but the only one authorized by the late poet's estate. The back cover features a never before published photo of Ballagas in Paris, during the 30s. The preface and selection are the work of the poet's son, Manuel Ballagas.

Horror and the bizarre abound in this book of short fiction by Manuel Ballagas, one of the best Cuban-American writers of our time.

Meet Manny, a character you will never forget. He's a perennial refugee in La Saguesera, Little Havana's hottest spot, and his adventures are as deadly as funny. It seems that he will only rest when he dies.

Someone experiences a sex change on a round trip to Havana. Somebody else switches passports, never to return. Yet one more visits his former home in Cuba and bumps into a peculiar tenant. The stories in Malas lenguas are the narrative of the comings and goings of a never ending, banal exile, threaded with the salt of rotten memories.