The maids of Havana
By: Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781449070700
Subjects: Black Women; Fiction; Black people; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Noires; Romans, nouvelles; Conditions sociales; Manners and customs; Sociala förhållanden
Work titles: Criadas de La Habana
Description: Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami.
Notes: Translation of: Las criadas de La Habana.

A novel.