Daína Chaviano (Author)

"The Cuba I knew when I used to live there, was a divided country, in half, with many corners fenced off for their own inhabitants. I didn’t have access to certain books, testimonies, authors and documents, which I only found out about once I went into exile. Exile was where I was able to complete the amended or mutilated spaces that I was still missing to understand Cuba’s history. My novels, riddled with ghosts, journeys in time, mythological reinterpretations, are how I try to give a coherent image so as to reconstruct that incomplete reality which I was shown..."  (Complete  text in PDF).