La Habana para un Infante Difunto

Halfway between autobiography and fiction, in Havana for a Dead Child, a young writer remembers his childhood and adolescence in Cuba, from his birth in the East to his sexual awakening and his experiences in the city of Havana in the decade of the fifties, before the start of the Castro era. In this masterful novel, nostalgia for the lost city is combined with a free eroticism and the characteristic marks of Cabrera Infante's literature, which have consecrated him as one of the main creators in Spanish of the 20th century: mastery of the language of Cabrera Infante. a conjurer, exuberant prose, musical rhythm and a dazzling sense of humor.