Huracán y otros cuentos

In Hurricane and Other Stories, Pedro Rafael Fonseca Tamayo makes the everyday strange and finds intimate truths in the unfamiliar. These stories have a Cuban pulse and an intimate voice. Their poetic intensity illuminates rather than embellishes. Each opens a door to memory, desire, loss and the darker corners where we recognise ourselves, sometimes in comedy, sometimes in ferocity.

The marvellous real meets social allegory, biting humour meets tenderness, and subtle criticism sits alongside wonder. Towns seem to breathe. Love is warped by need, and obsessions sweep people along like the wind. Characters navigate the sea, guilt, hope and rage, as though on the verge of discovering something that matters to you, too.

For readers of contemporary short fiction who relish a strong sense of atmosphere, endings that linger and prose that captures an age without preaching. Open the book at any page. Chances are the first gust of wind will sweep you up, and you won't want to put it down.