Bibliograph

Ella cantaba boleros, y, La amazona, Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Type

Label

Ella cantaba boleros, y, La amazona, Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Language

spa

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Adult, Brodart

resource.interestGradeLevel

Adult, Brodart

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Ella cantaba boleros

Oclc number

1192491759

Responsibility statement

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Series statement

Contemporánea

Sub title

y, La amazona

Summary

Publisher Annotation: Two stories extracted from two of Cabrera Infante s main novels, published by the author in a single volume. She Sang Boleros is the outcome of suggestions by two of Cabrera Infante s writer friends: Mario Vargas Llosa and Javier Marías. The former advised him to publish Ella cantaba boleros / She Sang Boleros as an independent narrative, instead of including it as a common thread in Tres tristes tigres / Three Trapped Tigers. For his part, Marías pointed out that the last chapter of La Habana para un infante difunto / Infante's Inferno was perfect as a stand-alone and that it should be published separately. Thus, in this book the two narratives live, in the words of its author, "together and not separate", joined by the ingenuity, cleverness, humor, and eroticism characteristic of Cabrera Infante s literature. Contemporanea (Debolsillo) series, Cuba, 312pp

Target audience

adult

Classification