Witty and humorously written in colloquial Cuban, One hundred
bottles in a wall (2002), anatomy of a double murder, takes place
in the '90s Havanna, amidst the crisis provoked by the collapse of
the socialist bloc. Zeta -Zee- main character and narrator, who
manages to survive by illicit means, recounts her relation with
Moises, former judge of the Supreme Court whose story relates to
the -crash of a world and the fall of the gods-, the collapse of
utopia. With Zeta and her friend Linda -a thriller writer- we delve
into a marginal underground world, unheard of in touristic guides
to Cuba. Translated into English, French, Portuguese, Dutch,
Polish, Italian, Greek and Turkish, this is Ena Lucia Portela's
best known novel. Born in 1972 in Havanna, Cuba, where she lives
nowadays, Portela takes a center place in Cuban present literature.
A Havanna University Graduate in Classic Languages and Literatures,
she writes both fiction and essays. Besides this novel, that won
the XVII Jaen Novel Award (2002) and the French critique Prix
Litteraire Deux Oceans - Grinzane Cavour (2003), Portela has
published the novels El pajaro: pincel y tinta china (1999), La
sombra del caminante (2006) and Djuna y Daniel (2008), and the
short stories volumes Una extrana entre las piedras (1999) and
Alguna enfermedad muy grave (2006). The critical anthology of her
short stories El viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos, was
published by Stockcero in 2009. Published in nine languages and
more than twenty countries Portela was selected as one of the most
influential 39 Latin American writers less than 39 years old. This
edition includes a foreword, -About the black novel: poetry and
politics in Cien botellas en la pared-, by Iraida H. Lopez, that
deals with police fiction in Cuba as well as in the Latin American
context, and proposes reading this work as a black novel. Hundreds
of footnotes, by the author as well as by the Literary Editor, deal
with both lexical, cultural, literary and historic background
references, transforming this edition into a great opportunity to
fully enjoy the fiction of this unique Cuban novelist.
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