Description
Book SynopsisConsidered by many the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution, this is the first book by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jesús Díaz (1941–2002) to appear in English.
Trade Review“
The Initials of the Earth is an emblematic novel of the Cuban Revolution, and the most significant of those set in the Cuba of the 1960s. . . . [It] is the novel that gives voice to the ways in which Cubans—and particularly young revolutionaries—experienced [those] years of epic change and crisis.”—Ambrosio Fornet, from the epilogue
“This translation of
Las Iniciales de la tierra is an exceptional event, and a rare chance to experience Cuban revolutionary literature first-hand.”—Fredric Jameson, from the foreword
“The chronology, the notes, the bibliography and the map help us understand where Jesús Díaz was coming from in 1987 and where he ended up. . . . And the translation, by Kathleen Ross, is splendid: inventive, idiomatic and precise without being pedantic.” -- Terrence Rafferty * New York Times Book Review *
Table of ContentsThe Initials of the Earth by Jesus Diaz 3
Epilogue / Ambrosio Fornet 371
Afterword / Kathleen Ross 395
Notes 401
Glossary 425
Bibliography 429
Foreword / Fredric Jameson xi
Translator’s Preface / Kathleen Ross xvii
Brief Chronology of Events in Cuba, 1942–75 xxi
