| 27/12/2020 – 19:18 (GMT-4)
Cuban actress Lynn Cruz has published her first novel entitled Terminal, presented by Editorial Hypermedia.
“A new title from our ‘Bajo el Radar’ collection, dedicated to the latest Cuban narrative,” wrote on Facebook the writer and editor Ladislao Aguado, director of Hypermedia.
Aguado also shared an excerpt from the novel in which he writes: “They let me in. In a dimly lit room, Fidel was sleeping. Full of needles … devices … artificial respiration. How fragile it seemed to me then. It was a body, a mass of flesh and bone … immobile ”.
The novel is already available on Amazon for $ 17.90, as can be seen on the online sales platform.
“Float. My novel has finally seen the light. At Hypermedia Publishing, on Amazon. Thank you to all those who accompanied me during this trip that began in 2012 “, the author expressed on Facebook.
The cover of the book was handled by artist Samuel Riera, to whom Lynn Cruz publicly thanked.
The novel received an honorable mention in 2018 from the Frank Kafka Novel Award, although it had not been published before. On that occasion, the jury stressed that “its quality and strength”, in addition to qualifying it as an excellent political reflection.
Lynn Cruz is known as an actress for feature films No one, a documentary dedicated to the censored Cuban writer Rafael Alcides and Blue heart, a fiction film, both directed independently by Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula.
In addition, Lynn Cruz collaborates as a writer on sites such as Hypermedia Magazine, the magazine of the publisher who published your book Havana TimesThe latter cost her in 2018 that she was fired from her official job for the Cuban agency Actuar.
In addition, the actress was very active from a cultural point of view. In 2018, he also prepared the song Patriotism 36-77, which addressed the issue of censorship in Cuba. In addition, Cruz is a collaborator of the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artism (INSTAR), founded by artist Tania Bruguera to create political and social awareness in art.
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