Author: Fernando Ortiz
- Non-Fiction
- Biblioteca Ayacucho
- ISBN: 9789802760466
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Richard Heyer

This is an extended essay on tobacco and sugar and the important role they came to play in Cuba. The author describes how in distinct and contrasting ways they both came to dominate economic as well as cultural and social life on the island.