Habana Flash

Havana Flash is a travel book converted into fiction. Xavier Alcalá, a writer with an impressive literary trajectory, chooses to write about a trip in which he searches for the places in which his grandfather made his fortune. Fiction is so close to reality that some of the characters appear with their real name while others (the revolutionaries frustrated with Fidel) are carefully redrawn to hide their true identity as they could otherwise face severe punishment for providing the author with certain information. Despite this literary license, Havana Flash reveals a great amount of truth, thereby making it almost impossible not to view this book as the story of Cuba that not even Fidel wanted to recognize.