El valor literario del Lázaro de 1555

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.

After surviving the mysterious disease that is killing the majority of the America's children, 10-year-old Ruby realizes she has changed. Her frightened parents call the police and she is sent to the brutal government rehabilitation camp named Thurmond. Six years later, she is on the run. She joins other children like herself who have escaped the camp. She can't risk trusting anything or anybody since people will stop at nothing to try and use her powers.

Dos narradores extraordinarios, Gabo y Mario, el poeta y el arquitecto, Lennon y McCartney, el turco y el indio, protagonizan una de las amistades más férreas de toda la literatura universal. Esos mismos amigos, diez años más tarde, terminan su relación con una pelea que llega hasta los puños. Cobijados bajo sus alas, un conjunto de escritores, los mejores del continente latinoamericano, se reúnen, celebran, se escriben y viven juntos aventuras apasionantes. Las novelas más sobresalientes del siglo xx en español, los grandes premios literarios, los contratos millonarios, los...

Con la intencion de ofrecer variedad tematica y formal, esta antologia combina cuentos breves, fragmentos de narraciones mas largas, recuerdos biograficos, anecdotas e incluso poemas. Autores tan disimiles como Pavic y Paul Auster, Moravia y Dylan Thomas, Cortazar y Arreola se dan cita para dar por cierta la definicion de Cabrera Infante: "Literatura es todo lo que se lea como tal."