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Fiction: Toward Another Name for Love

Nivaria Tejera (Cuba, 1929) grew up in the Canary Islands during the Spanish Civil War, which became the setting for her first novel El barranco (1958; The Ravine, 2008 [reviewed in Review 81, Fall 2010]). Working as a cultural attaché for the Cuban Revolution in Paris and Rome, she resigned in 1965 and returned as an exile to Paris where she still lives. Author of numerous books of poetry, she is known more for her narrative works, which include: Sonámbulo del sol (Biblioteca Breve prize, 1971; Sleepwalker in the Sun), Huir de la espiral (1987; Fleeing the Spiral), and Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución (1997; I Wait for the Night to Dream of You, Revolution). The following texts are from her new, unpublished novel.