Daína Chaviano (Author)

"Daína Chaviano's characters move among an Old Havana now in ruins. Claudia, the main character, seeks comfort in her despair, and her successive, retrospective visions provide her with a gradual increase of her link with her city [...] The retrospectives take her to colonial Havana, where she's led by Muba, her black, still half-wild godmother, who shows her not Dante's Inferno, but a Havana filled with life and color.".  (Complete text in PDF)