by Miguel Barnet · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789707310995
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«Canción de Rachel» is the novel by Miguel Barnet, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (159 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Havana in the 1920s and 1930s, the novel follows Rachel, a star of the Teatro Alhambra, who narrates her life in the first person among chorus girls, dancers, rumba performers, businessmen and the casino scene, in a story of passion, love and hate.
The novel was originally published in 1991; this Punto de Lectura edition is from 2005. The book's subtitle is «una rutilante puesta en escena de pasión, amor y odio».
For readers of Cuban fiction and stories set in the entertainment world of the first half of the twentieth 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.
