Author: Norberto Fuentes
- Fiction
- Seix Barral
- ISBN: 9788432210808
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

This collection of stories won the Casa de Americas prize in 1968, awarded by a jury chaired by Jorge Edwards. Published in Italy with a prologue by Italo Calvino, the collection evinces a happy amalgam of the styles of Hemingway and Babel. A Cuban short story classic.