Fidel Castro's Sewing Machine

by Patrick Farnon

Overview

An offer of marriage from a blind gandmother in Bagpipes in Havana; a woman in pain who has a vision of St Lazarus in Lidia's Breasts; Alfredo Chang who hanged himself for a demon woman in Because of Her; the problems of the Hulk with his fellow delinquents in Tipping the Hulk and Delinquents and Magic Glue; Angel exposition of the tribulations of a room rental operator with his scumbag clients in Angel's Litany. And of course the day Fidel came with a sewing machine for Alicia for her services to the revolution. A total of ten tales from the underground of Cuba.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166932327
Publisher:	Patrick Farnon
Publication date:	03/27/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	218 KB

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Patrick Farnon was born in Hamilton, Scotland, studied French & Spanish at Glasgow University and is a Member of ALCS (Authors Licensing and Collecting Society). His short stories have appeared in Barcelona Ink, The New Edinburgh Review, Words, Trends, Stand magazine, Scottish Short Stories (Collins), the Scotsman Magazine. As a journalist he has written for Havana Times (online), Jakarta Post, The Times, The Herald, The Scotsman, Holland Life, Industrial Relations Europe, Vision magazine, the Economist Intelligence Unit etc. He is also a translator of Spanish and Dutch. He lives in Amsterdam with his wife and daughter.