One Hundred Bottles

by Ena Lucía Portela, Achy Obejas (Translator)

Overview

One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a murder mystery. But it's really a survivor's story. In a voice that blends gossip, storytelling, and literature, Z—the vivacious heroine of Portela's award-winning novel—relates her rum-soaked encounters with the lesbian underground, the characters carving up her home, and the terrifying-but-irresistible Moisés. As entertaining as any detective drama, One Hundred Bottles is ultimately made real by very rough love, intense friendship, and something small that decides to live.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292723320
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	11/01/2010
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ena Lucía Portela is the author of numerous works of fiction, including this novel, winner of the 2002 Jaén Prize. This is her first novel published in English.

Born in Havana, Achy Obejas is the author of Ruins, Days of Awe, and other books. She is the editor and translator (into English) of Havana Noir, and the translator (into Spanish) of Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

What People are Saying About This

Esther Allen

A brilliant, scathing Havana fever dream about a lost, overweight girl in love with an abusive, older man—so brilliant that the allegorical aspect of the book doesn’t strike you until after you’ve closed it.