Daína Chaviano (Author)

What makes this work fascinating is its fusion of history and fantasy. In this work, access to both the family's history and the nation's is only possible through an acceptance of the fantastic. But more importantly, this novel takes a matriarchal view of history, one where history is told from the perspective of the women who make up these families. Through its narrative, the novel empowers women to speak for their long-lost ancestors, rewriting both their family histories and the nation's. (Complete text in PDF).