by Daína Chaviano · Planeta Publishing · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408025306
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«El hombre, la hembra y el hambre» is the novel by Daína Chaviano, published by Planeta Publishing in hardback (312 pages, in Spanish).
In Havana in the 1990s, an economist turned butcher and an artisan who was once an art teacher evoke their stories with an enigmatic prostitute and a young woman who suffers paranormal experiences. The novel interweaves their voices to portray survival, desire and spirituality in contemporary Cuba.
The novel is the third instalment of the tetralogy «La Habana oculta». Daína Chaviano won the Premio Azorín de Novela in 1998 for this work.
For readers of contemporary fiction with a social backdrop and magical realism; it is also a work studied in university literature programmes.
Daína Chaviano is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent. She has lived in the United States since 1991.
