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Book SynopsisPlaying opportunely with realism and fiction, the sensational young Cuban writer Pedro de Jesús interlinks six stories in an inventive narrative of psychological darkness and sexual intricacy. In this tour de force of alienation and transgression, he captures the disaffected existence of a certain segment of gay, lesbian and bisexual characters on the fringes of contemporary Cuban society
The new Reinaldo Arenas.—El País
All of the stories in Cuentos frigidos are very interesting and imaginative, full of dark humor and subtle insights.—Emilio Bejel, author of Gay Cuban Nation
Sex is a preoccupation and, as the King of Siam would say, ''a puzzlement'' in this debut collection of six coy, elusive stories from a young Cuban fiction writer . . . witty and accomplished.—Kirkus Reviews
Despite the title, there is nothing frigid about these tales—what appears to be coldness is all on the surfa
