Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to
the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth,
stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of
a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a shaken mental
state, the writer William Figueras lives after his exile from Cuba.
He claims to have gone crazy after the Cuban government judged his
first novel "morose, pornographic, and also irreverent, because it
dealt harshly with the Communist Party," and prohibited its
publication. By the time he arrives in Miami twenty years later, he
is a "toothless, skinny, frightened guy who had to be admitted to a
psychiatric ward that very day" instead of the ready-for-success
exile his relatives expected to welcome and receive among them.
Placed in a halfway house, with its trapped bestial inhabitants and
abusive overseers, he enters a hell. Romance appears in the form of
Frances, a mentally fragile woman and an angel, with whom he tries
to escape in this apocalyptic classic of Cuban literature. "Behind
the hardly one hundred pages," Canarias Diario stated, "is the work
of a tireless fabulist, a writer who delights in language,
extracting verbs and adjectives which are powerful enough to stop
the reader in his tracks."
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