Afro-Cuban Tales

by Lydia Cabrera

Book Overview

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate.

Here readers will find a vibrant,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803264380
• ISBN13: 9780803264380
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.4"