by Miguel Barnet · Letras Cubanas Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9789591006721
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«Canción de Rachel» is a novel by Miguel Barnet, published by Letras Cubanas Editorial in hardback (139 pages, in Spanish).
The novel portrays the world of the Teatro Alhambra in Havana during the 1920s and 1930s, with Rachel, star of a rumberos company, as the central figure. It is an evocation of an era of splendor in Cuban music and dance.
The edition of «Canción de Rachel» by Letras Cubanas Editorial is from 2001; the work was originally published in 1991.
For a general audience, with an interest in Cuban narrative and the cultural life of Havana in the early decades of the 20th century.
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.
