About the Book
Experience Cuba in the 1850s. In its final days, the Spanish Empire's heavy hand touches everything on the Island, one of its last remaining colonies in the Americas. Some benefit from the corruption, inequality, and slave-based economy; but many in the island are chafing under the Spanish rule and hoping for a better, freer world. This is one Cuban family's story during this turbulent time.
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Genre
FIC056050 (Fiction / Hispanic & Latino / Historical)
FIC147000 (Fiction / Places / Caribbean & Latin America)
FIC014100 (Fiction / Historical / 19th Century / General)
ALSO BY MATIAS TRAVIESO-DIAZ
When Cubans Went to War
A sweeping family saga set in nineteenth-century Cuba during the struggle for independence.
In the turbulent decades before Cuba’s war of independence, the Serrano family is forced to confront loyalty, ambition, and sacrifice as political unrest reshapes their lives. Moving from Havana to the countryside and back again, each family member faces a personal reckoning against the backdrop of colonial power, social inequality, and revolution.
About Matias Travieso-Diaz
Matias Travieso-Diaz is a former engineer and attorney who, following retirement, redirected his efforts towards fiction writing. He lives with his daughter and two dogs in the Washington, D.C. area. He describes himself as an “Animal Farm's goat, Packers and Barça fan, and lover of opera, classical theater, jazz, Italian food and vino” Born in Cuba, Matias migrated to the United States as a young man. He took up creative writing eight years ago and, since that time, he has authored a great number of short stories, over two hundred of which have been published or accepted for publication in short story anthologies, magazines, blogs, audio books and podcasts. He has completed three novels: The Taíno Women, set in Cuba's early colonial period; The Travels of Lázaro Serrano, set in Cuba and Jamaica in 1762-63; and When Cubans Went to War, dealing with the backdrop for Cuba's ten-year war of independence in the Nineteenth Century. He is working on a fourth novel that takes Cuba's history to its final independence in 1902.
