Malas lenguas - Ballagas, Manuel
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Someone experiences a sex change on a round trip to Havana. Somebody else switches passports, never to return. Yet one more visits his former home in Cuba and bumps into a peculiar tenant. The stories in Malas lenguas are the narrative of the comings and goings of a never ending, banal exile, threaded with the salt of rotten memories.

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Produktbeschreibung
Someone experiences a sex change on a round trip to Havana. Somebody else switches passports, never to return. Yet one more visits his former home in Cuba and bumps into a peculiar tenant. The stories in Malas lenguas are the narrative of the comings and goings of a never ending, banal exile, threaded with the salt of rotten memories.
Autorenporträt
Manuel Ballagas was born in Cuba to a reknowned literary family. He published his first work of fiction at age 15, in Casa de Las Américas magazine, a literary publication with a large Latin American following. By 1965, his first book of fiction was going to print, when Fidel Castro himself had the publishing house closed. Since 1980, Ballagas has been living in the United States, where he worked as an editor in The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald and The Tampa Tribune. Between 2000 and 2003 he was an editorial consultant for the Spanish language edition of Foreign Affairs magazine. He's the author of two novels, two book of short stories and a memoir.