Pedro de Jesús – författare

Playing opportunely with realism and fiction, the sensational young Cuban writer Pedro de Jesus interlinks six stories in an inventive narrative of psychological darkness and sexual intricacy. In this tour de force of alienation and transgression, he captures the disaffected existence of a certain segment of gay, lesbian, and bisexual characters on the fringes of contemporary Cuban society "The new Reinaldo Arenas."--El Pais "All of the stories in Cuentos frigidos are very interesting and imaginative, full of dark humor and subtle insights." -Emilio Bejel, author of Gay Cuban Nation "Sex is a preoccupation and, as the King of Siam would say, 'a puzzlement' in this debut collection of six coy, elusive stories from a young Cuban fiction writer ...witty and accomplished." -Kirkus Reviews "Despite the title, there is nothing frigid about these tales--what appears to be coldness is all on the surface.True, the characters of these six interrelated stories are often uncomfortable with their sexuality and sometimes believe they would be happier if they weren't so horny all the time, and true, too, Pedro de Jesus makes use of the cerebral and distancing forms of postmodern fiction, although he cannot resist descending into a realism he has been taught to disparage--in short, the stories are the product of a young man who believes that his libido is getting in the way of his art but nevertheless cannot hide his old-fashioned passion for love stories." -The Review of Contemporary Fiction Pedro de Jesus was born in 1970 in Fomento, Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. In addition to writing short stories, de Jesus has published essays, and a novel, Sibilas en Mercaderes. Frigid Tales has been published in Spain and his work has appeared in anthologies in Germany, France, and Italy. Dick Cluster is the author of Obligations of the Bone and other fiction. He has translated Mirta Yanez's Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women as well as Alejandro Hernadez Diaz, Sonia Rivera-Valdes, Aida Bahr, and Antonio Jose Ponte.

Las historias reunidas en Mañana hablarán de nosotros habitan en los confines de ese territorio de anhelos y contradicciones que es la Cuba actual. Las múltiples caras de la Isla son el escenario utilizado por un nutrido grupo de escritores para desarrollar diecinueve cuentos regidos por las ingobernables leyes del amor y del deseo.Con una prosa exuberante que aúna el gusto por el exceso y el cuidado por los pequeños detalles, los autores expresan una decidida voluntad de dejar atrás las "maniobras del secreto" y mirar sin ambages las diferentes expresiones que la sexualidad —y la sensualidad— encuentra en su país. La fascinante mezcolanza de culturas, razas e ideologías sustenta una mirada provocadora e inconformista a la realidad LGTB que convierte este libro en un acontecimiento literario en el panorama de las letras hispanas contemporáneas."Hombres y mujeres que piensan a Cuba desde la sexualidad que no pacta con códigos castrantes, desde la Isla o fuera de ella, son los protagonistas de este volumen (…) Son autores que no tienen que pactar ya con las escaramuzas del secreto, que dejan a un lado las formas en las que, hasta no hace tanto, se debía inducir al lector para que comprendiera de qué se hablaba. El desparpajo, la transparencia, la confesión, son ahora las claves esenciales" (Norge Espinosa)