Daína Chaviano (Author)

I've always thought that there are writers with a similar knack for dazzling with their stories: the Dane Karen Blixen, Haitian Edwidge Danticat and Chilean Isabel Allende. This tradition comes to mind when reading Daína Chaviano's novel The Island of Eternal Love. [...] For the reader seeking a plot, the novel's dramatic tension never fizzles; those looking to learn about Cuban culture and its influences will find it smoothly assimilates a documentation of habits and customs which took Chaviano years to research; for those with a taste for the "leap into the other side" which we've come to expect from Daína's imagination, there's no lack of magical creatures and even a haunted house. (Complete text in PDF)

Translated from the original in Spanish.
 2008 Daína Chaviano. Photo: Lili Dominguez.