by Miguel Barnet · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420445847
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Los perros mudos is a collection of Cuban fables by writer and ethnologist Miguel Barnet. In these stories, animals are the protagonists who try to explain human and animal behavior. The book, published in 1988 by Alfaguara, collects various fables of African, Canary and Andalusian origin, transformed by the influence of the Cuban environment. This edition has 144 pages and is bound in paperback.
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.
