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Title: Tales from the Cuban Empire by Antonio Jose Ponte, Cola Franzen ISBN: 0-87286-407-3 Publisher: City Lights Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Short but potent
Comment: This short book contains 5 amazing stories, whether writing about the Congri Heads (a fraternity of expatriated Cuban physics students who love black bean and rice), or an underground and loft architecture (reminiscent of Jorge Borge), Ponte's stories have a great reality amongst a fanciful background. Ponte changes his perspective easily from a Chinese butcher (of elephant meat!) to a woman seeking refuge in a women's bathroom.

I promise you won't make Scheherazade's head roll, as Ponte dares in the prologue. Although Cuban, and the first Cuban featured at the Miami Book Fair International, you won't find anything as temporal as direct criticism of Castro, but rather more sad/comic thoughts of society. The escape stories in "The summer in a barbershop" may be the story most directly reflective of Cuba. I am thankful that these stories from this great storyteller got published despite the US embargo.