Books by Manuel Ballagas

Horror and the bizarre abound in this book of short fiction by Manuel Ballagas, one of the best Cuban-American writers of our time.

Meet Manny, a character you will never forget. He's a perennial refugee in La Saguesera, Little Havana's hottest spot, and his adventures are as deadly as funny. It seems that he will only rest when he dies.

Someone experiences a sex change on a round trip to Havana. Somebody else switches passports, never to return. Yet one more visits his former home in Cuba and bumps into a peculiar tenant. The stories in Malas lenguas are the narrative of the comings and goings of a never ending, banal exile, threaded with the salt of rotten memories.