Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384403to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cuban Comedy Author: Pablo Medina Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 9, 2019 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter, Elena, longs to be a poet. After a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, she wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There, she encounters a population adjusting to a new way of life post-revolution: spies with secret meetings and black marketeers dealing with censorship. Full of outlandish humor and insights into an often contradictory and Kafkaesque regime, author Pablo Medina brings 1960s Cuba to life through the eyes of Elena.

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