Author: Leonardo Padura
- Fiction
- Tusquets  
- ISBN: 978-6074217070
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Rafael E. Tarrago

A Cuban professor of literature based in Spain returns to Cuba for the purpose of finding a lost manuscript of the 19th century poet José María Heredia and of finding out who was the childhood friend who traduced him as a counterrevolutionary and caused him to go into exile.