Query: books from Cuba
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Cecilia Valdés
Tres tristes tigres (novel)
Farewell to the Sea
Explosion in a Cathedral
Sab (novel)
The Island of Eternal Love
Before Night Falls
Paradiso (novel)
The Harp and the Shadow
Palace of the White Skunks
Evidence from documents: Cecilia Valdés: '''''Cecilia Valdés''''' is both a novel by the Cuban writer Cirilo Villaverde (1812–1894), and a zarzuela based on the novel. It is a work of importance for its quality, and its revelation of the interaction of classes and races in Havana, Cuba.
Tres tristes tigres (novel): ''''Tres tristes tigres''''' (), abbreviated as '''''TTT''''', is the debut novel by Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The novel was first published in Spain in 1967. It was later translated into English by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine and published in 1971 as '''''Three Trapped Tigers'''''.
Farewell to the Sea: '''''Farewell to the Sea''''' is a 1987 book and the third in Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas' ''Pentagonia'' book series, which critics have often argued as his best.


Set on a Cuban beach immediately following the revolution, a disenchanted poet mourns for the new suppression while his wife longs for the connectivity that she can no longer find.
Explosion in a Cathedral: '''''Explosion in a Cathedral''''' (Spanish title: '''El Siglo de las Luces, ''"The Age of Enlightenment" ''''') is a historical novel by Cuban writer and musicologist Alejo Carpentier.
Sab (novel): The novel was first published in Cuba in 1914.
The Island of Eternal Love: ''The Island of Eternal Love'', whose rights have been sold to 26 languages, has become the most translated Cuban novel of all time.
Before Night Falls: '''''Before Night Falls''''' () is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his early life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his escape to the United States in the Mariel Boatlift of 1980.
Paradiso (novel): '''''Paradiso''''' is a novel by Cuban writer José Lezama Lima, the only one completed and published during his lifetime. Written in an elaborately baroque style, the narrative follows the childhood and youth of José Cemí, and depicts many scenes which resonate with Lezama's own life as a young poet in Havana. Many of the characters reappear in Lezama's posthumous novel ''Oppiano Licario'', which was published in Mexico in 1977.
The Harp and the Shadow: '''''The Harp and the Shadow''''' (Spanish: ''El arpa y la sombra'') is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier.
Palace of the White Skunks: Published in 1982, '''''Palace of the White Skunks''''' is the second book of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas' Pentagonia book series.