La puta y el hurón

Mary, a young artist from Havana, does everything in her power not to become a ferret. What is a ferret? The subject of the revolution, the stalwart of Fidel's messianic message, every member of that respectable caste that watches over, controls and subjugates even the most intimate secret in the life of any Cuban. There are no ferrets among Mary's friends, but none of them can completely escape her clutches.The whore and the ferret is a furious performance that pulls a corner of the blanket that hides all the rottenness of the oppressive and patriarchal Cuban system. Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas, a central figure of the current Cuban counterculture, unfolds before the reader the cry of those who were ordered to silence and obey. She stretches it, she twists it. This novel tells us how a generation of Cubans revolts, becomes enraged and tries not to succumb to the horror that is offered to them as the only possibility.