An Address in Havana/Domicilio habanero: Selected Short Stories

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Barbara Riess. Bilingual Edition. Edited by Sara E. Cooper, Jacqueline Loss, and Becky White. Winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award for Best Fiction Book in Translation. "Solitary characters, afflicted by real or fictitious fears... a world plagued with absurdities... exceptional stories, told through an ironic perspective with humor and cruelty. Llana stories are a mixture of fantasy, dark humor, and gothic comedy. Her short stories contain a rich and thoroughly entertaining representation of a particular social class in Cuba during the last forty years: the bourgeoisie who struggled to maintain their social status and participated only by default in the construction of the new socialist society. Portraits of family and twisted gender roles abound, within a mysterious and uncanny domestic sphere that is unmistakably set in Havana."