Un poco más de azul | Manuel Reguera Saumell | book new | sale

Manuel Reguera Saumell

Barataria : Bárbaros | 2004

344 | 8h 8m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

20cm x 16cm | 520gr

In the early years of the 1950s, Quirino Sandoval, a young barber from the Luyano neighborhood, was forced to take the path of exile (the first exile) to other less conflictive neighborhoods. It stops at Twenty-third Street, near the cemetery. There she finds work in an old barbershop run by the old matriarch Trina, accustomed due to the lack of men to taking charge of her business and her family. He also finds love, nocturnal and clandestine, at the hands of the rotund daughter Trinita, and the friendship and camaraderie of the grandson, Crisanto, determined to polish his image and "unscrew him." While Quirino devotes himself to a process of personal development that will open the doors to the environments of the "upper neighborhoods" and to definitive love, Cuba seems to enter the opposite process. Corruption and the degradation of social life lead to the emergence of a popular opposition, in some cases armed and violent. Forty years after his definitive exile in Miami, Quirino emotionally reviews his achievements: family, love, his victory in maintaining the dignity of his barber's profession, but also his losses. «My children belong to another culture and they laugh at poor Ocambo when I assure him that everything there was better, from the taste of the mangoes to the color of the sky. Although there are no mangoes or blue skies left in Liborio's homeland... I think.»