An address in Havana
Subtitle: selected short stories = Domicilio habanero
By: by María Elena Llana ; translated by Barbara Riess
Contributors: Riess, Barbara, translator; Llana, María Elena, 1936-; Llana, María Elena, 1936-
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Cubanabooks
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chico, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780982786031
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Cuban Short stories; Translations into English; Short stories
Other titles: Domicilio habanero
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "This bilingual collection highlights Llana's most critically successful stories.  The female protagonists and the convergence of narrative times within a limited space - an address in Havana - present a compelling portrait of female subjectivity throughout the past fifty years."--Back cover.
Notes: In English and Spanish; translated from the Spanish.
Table of contents: title: María Elena Llana's ghosts; title: Los fantasmas de María Elena Llana; title: Translator's note; title: Notes on this selection; title: [from Latticework/La reja (1965):] Unholy night, 1958; title: Nochemala; title: The wrought iron gate; title: La reja; title: The two of us; title: Nosotras; title: Know thyself; title: Conócete a ti misma; title: [from Vedado homes/Casas del vedado (1938):] A Chinese fan; title: Un abanico chino; title: The gobelin tapestry; title: El gobelino; title: In the family; title: En familia; title: A slippery slope; title: En la pendiente; title: [from House of cards/Castillo de naipes (1998):] Rooms; title: Los cuartos; title: Eleggua spray; title: Elegguá spray; title: [from Rounds on the malecón/Ronda en el malecón (2004):] On returning; title: Volver; title: At the water's edge; title: En la orilla; title: A five-hundred-year-old rum; title: Añejo cinco siglos; title: About the author; title: Sobre la autora; title: About the translator; title: Sobre la traductora.