Making a Scene; Cuban women's stories

Author Mirta Yanez (ed.)
This bilingual collection of short stories is edited by Cuban writer and academic Mirta Yanez, and features a stunning range of narratives, from moving accounts about old age such as Aida Bahr's Not Quite Perfect/Imperfecciones to Ana Luz Garc

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“Making a Scene” is a beautiful collection of short stories celebrating Cuban women’s short fiction. A bilingual edition it features an extraordinary range of narratives, styles and techniques. There are moving stories about old age such as Aida Bahr’s “Not Quite Perfect” (Imperfecciones) and Aymara Aymerich’s “The Woman, The Mirror and the Column” (La mujerdel espejo de la columna) to Ana Luz Garcia’s magical “The Guests” (Los convidados). Several of the collections short stories centre on the 1990’s in Cuba. A period known as the “special period”, when Cuba’s economy crashed owing to the collapse of the Soviet Union causing severe food shortages on the Island. It was women in their kitchens that fought a daily war to keep the body and soul together of their families.

Other authors in this rich, robust and at times wryly humorous collection include:

Esther Díaz Llanillo, María Elena Llana, Josefina de Diego and Marilyn Bobes to name, but a few of the great writers captured here.