Contemporary Cuban literature is undoubtedly enjoying
one of its most stimulating and fruitful periods. Tusquets Editores proudly presents Arturo Arango, narrator and essayist who, with his most recent and
ambitious novel, El libro de la realidad
(The Book of Reality), will finally make himself known outside of Cuba. In
the novel, Arango touches upon one of the most delicate subjects in the recent
history of his country, the sacrifice of the present made by a generation for
the sake of a future that is both unknown and uncertain.
In the Cuba of the sixties, a group of adolescents,
students and high school friends, find themselves immersed in a secret
adventure that will change their lives forever. They become part of a guerrilla
group that trains physically and mentally in order to extend the Revolution
throughout Latin America. Love, family relations, personal projects and wishes
will all become irremissibly disrupted by the various and increasingly
dangerous phases of their training, some which put their lives in serious
danger. But none of that discourages these young people, perhaps because their
naïve and undoubtedly excessive faith does not allow them to see the unusual
result of their experiences. We are met, then, with a beautiful and complex
tale, deeply rooted in reality, about the vulnerability of the human being and
the fight against the wretchedness of all that is messianic.
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