Libros de Gregorio Ortega (2 libros)

Premio novela Plaza Mayor 2004. El autor (La Habana, 1926) es periodista y fue embajador de su pais en Francia, Ha recibido dos veces el Premio de la Critica en Cuba. La Habana es protagonista y escenario de esta novela en que frustracion, delirio, santeria, jineteras, desarrollan la vida de la ciudad, negada a la decrepitud.

In eve of the presidential change-over, the banking is nationalized, and by means of a President's decree, the currency is devaluated in more than a hundred percent, the inflation goes up to three digits and the Mexicans' savings in "mexdollars" become pesos with little value. By the end of that six years governmental period, in which the good administration of the oil abundance was proclaimed, the country was in fact plundered and left with empty arks. This was the scenario of Mexico in 1982 and the one that serves as a background for the fictitious characters of "State Crime," a novel where ...