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A work by writer Pedro Juan Gutierrez on Saturday of the Book

Havana, Dec. 20 (Prensa Latina) The book Melancholy of the Lions, by Pedro Juan Gutierrez, published by Editorial Oriente, will be presented un Habana as part of the traditional Saturday Book Fair organized by the Cuban Book Institute (ICL).

The presentation will take place at 11:00 a.m. local time on Calle de Madera, on one side of Plaza de Armas, across from the City Museum in Old Havana.

This work is a collection of “short stories in which poetry, absurdity, and strangeness combine with a surprising economy of means to showcase the craft of a storyteller,” according to the ICL.

The author began writing this book in the 1980s—it took him about thirteen years to complete—and “in a way, he sets it up as a small tribute to Franz Kafka and Julio Cortazar, his two cult writers,” the press release states.

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