An award-winning cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba,
Freeway: La Movie crosses the absurdity of American pop culture
with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations. A
novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian Havana,
Freeway narrates the adventure of two misfits wandering the
construction site of a colossal freeway-to-be - a mysterious feat
of engineering that slices through Havana, designed to connect the
US and Cuba. The two embark on a futile journey, overlaid with the
elusive filming of a documentary about the freeway construction.
Both film quality and interior monologues drift aimlessly, haunted
by Cuban history and US pop culture. Freeway: La Movie is a
satirical novel that attempts to reconcile what might be hopelessly
irreconcilable: the body and the machine; analog and digital;
post-industrial overdevelopment and post-socialist
underdevelopment; Cuba and the US; reality and fiction; the
plasticity of personal identity and rigid categories such as
gender, class, and nationality. Through the clash of utopian
promises and dystopian realities, Freeway reveals the unease of
contemporary culture from the US to Cuba.
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