Books

Based on the author’s family recipes, this is real Cuban cooking presented with today’s busy cooks in mind.

Published in 25 languages, it has become the most widely-translated Cuban novel of all time.

Ambitious in scope yet intimate in tone, full of dark comedy, magical history, and startling revelations, Pig's Foot is a dazzling evocation of Cuba's tumultuous history, and a spell-binding debut.

Send My Roots Rain reveals how memory and land can form potent ties, and how unexpected change has the power to heal and transform lives.

Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost.

Everyone Leaves paints a vivid portrait of family life and social and political unrest in Castro's Cuba while exploring how the patriarchal and conformist notions of the Revolution betrayed the nation's women.

This inventive book marks the English-language debut of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice.

Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times).

The astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically

“Carpentier's energy is gigantic and pell-mell, sweeping colossi on top of each other with ruthless, contemptuous daring.” ―The Yale Review