Leapfrog and other stories
By: Guillermo Rosales ; introductino by Norberto Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner
Contributors: Kushner, Anna, translator
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780811219419
Subjects: Fiction
Other titles: Leapfrog & other stories
Work titles: Juego de la viola
Description: Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in post-revolutionary Havana in the late '50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes. The kids fight, discuss the mysteries of religion and sex, and play games -- such as leapfrog. So vivid and so very credible, Leapfrog reads as if Rosales had simply transcribed everything that he'd heard or said for this one moving and touching book about a lost childhood.
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: Juego de la viola.

"Leapfrog was originally published in Spanish in 1994, as El juego de la viola by Ediciones Universal, Miami, Florida"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Leapfrog -- -- The magic still:; title: The devil and the nun --; title: An axe to the sideburns --; title: The illustrated woman --; title: O Pythagoras! --; title: The phantom bunker.