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Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction! Longlisted for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award and The Story Prize! Included in The Rumpus's "What to Read When You've Made it More Than Halfway Through 2017" Selected as one of Rigoberto Gonzalez's Favorite Books of 2017/Critics...

Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push. Very strong fiction debut. Akashic's promotion will have a strong social media component Strong candidate for B&N Discover Program. Promote to a general literary audience, but also to African American and Carirbbean-themed media venues.

José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning...

The Hills of Hebron tells the story of a group of formerly enslaved Jamaicans as they attempt to create a new life in the utopian, anti-colonialist community of Hebron. However, a grab for power ensues when it is revealed that Rose, the wife of leader of the Church of New Believers, who has taken...

Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life...

As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during...

Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before...

A book about love, lies and deception between two women and the man who stole their hearts and played then both as fools. The never ending story of how a cute face and a smile turn smart women into foolish girls. 

La presente antología de Poemas de José Martí, reúne la totalidad de la obra poética del autor conocida hasta la fecha —incluidos algunos poemas inéditos en vida del poeta cubano y esbozos inconclusos—, y comprende las siguientes obras: Poemas dispersos I; Poemas escritos en España (1871-1874);...

Ismaelillo es un libro de poemas de José Martí escritos en Nueva York en 1882, y dedicados a su hijo José Francisco. El poeta cubano expresa en él la enorme nostalgia que sentía por su tierra y su continente en general, pero también por su hijo y por la infancia como una época dorada. Tras...

In his second book, originally intended for publication in 1898, but delayed by his recuperation from a chest wound received at the fall of Santiago, George Clarke Musgrave tells us about the patriotic struggles of the Cubans, and about the iniquities practised upon them by the impulsive Spanish occupation...

Tobacco and sugar have made the history, the character, and the economy of Cuba. In this entertaining book, packed with fascinating lore, scholarship in its most humane form, and the flavor of Fernando Ortiz’s exceedingly civilized and humorous personality, the two important crops are seen from...

Once años antes de que La cabaña del tío Tom se ocupase del tema de la abolición de la esclavitud en Norteamérica, la Avellaneda escribió Sab, una historia de amor desgraciado entre un esclavo mulato y la hija de su dueño blanco. El libro fue tan polémico que no se publicó en Cuba hasta 1914,...

El 19 de diciembre de 1875 se estrena Amor con amor se paga, obra ligera, de versificación sonora, que trata el tema amoroso con cierto humor y gracia. Escrita por José Martí en París durante su exilio para la actriz Concha Padilla, obtuvo la ovación de la crítica.