Adios, happy homeland!
By: Ana Menéndez
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Black Cat; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780802170842
Subjects: Fiction
Description: "Adios, Happy Homeland! is a group of interlinked tales that challenge our preconceptions of storytelling. This critical look at the life of the Cuban writer pulls apart and reassembles the myths that have come to define Menendez's culture, blending illusion with reality and exploring themes of art, family, language, superstition, and the need to escape --from the island, from memory, stereotype, and from the self. We're taken into a sick man's fever dream as he waits for a train beneath a strange night sky, into a community of parachute makers facing the end in a windy town that no longer exists, and onto a Cuban beach where strange debris washes ashore in the wake of a mother and son's hurried escape on a boat bound for America."
Table of contents: title: You are the heirs of all my terrors; title: Cojimar; title: The boy who was rescued by fish; title: The boy's triumphant return; title: In defense of flying; title: Glossary of Caribbean winds; title: The parachute maker; title: From: the poets, To: Herberto Quain; title: From: Herberto Quain, To: the poets; title: Redstone; title: The express; title: Zodiac of loss; title: Journey back to the seed (¿Qué quieres, vieja?); title: The boy who fell from heaven; title: The poet in his labyrinth; title: Adios happy homeland : selected translations according to Google; title: Un cuento extraño; title: A brief history of the Cuban poets; title: The melancholy hour; title: End-less stories; title: Three betrayals; title: Voló como Matías Pérez; title: Traveling foos; title: The shunting trains trace iron labyrinths.