Author: Daína Chaviano
- Fiction
- Planeta Publishing Co.
- ISBN: 9788408025306
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Octavio Nuñez

Winner of the Azorín Prize for the Novel in 1998, this work (included in university syllabi in both the U.S.A. and Europe) is perhaps the most representative novel of Cuban literature at the end of the century. A reflection of an entire generation, it is indispensable for understanding the social psychology and the spiritual dilemmas of the Cuban people. Its surprising prose and its fusing of fantasy and reality make memorable reading.