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The Drowned Never Die: Tales from La Turbina
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Alberto Barcelo
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Drowned Never Die is a constellation of interwoven stories that reconstruct the life of a Cuban neighborhood shaped by memory, silence, and survival.
La Turbina is not merely a place. It is a territory where the intimate and the collective dissolve into one another, where rumor carries the weight of truth, and where the past never fully withdraws. Through unforgettable figures-Maco, Escapulario, Planchero, Galileo, Macorina, Moisés, and the Madre de Aguas-these stories move through moral ambiguity, political repression, clandestine desire, popular faith, everyday violence, and the stubborn affections that endure even in scarcity.
Each story becomes part of a larger mosaic: the emotional chronicle of a community pierced by power, desire, and inherited guilt.
With prose that is direct, austere, and deeply human, Tales from La Turbina gives voice to what was never said, what was silenced, and what always returns transformed into memory.
Because in La Turbina, the drowned never die.
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