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)