This bilingual collection highlights Llana's most critically successful stories. The female protagonists and the convergence of narrative times within a limited space - an address in Havana - present a compelling portrait of female subjectivity throughout the past fifty years."

Contents:                 

María Elena Llana's ghosts -- Los fantasmas de María Elena Llana -- Translator's note -- Notes on this selection -- [from Latticework/La reja (1965):] Unholy night, 1958 -- Nochemala -- The wrought iron gate -- La reja -- The two of us -- Nosotras -- Know thyself -- Conócete a ti misma -- [from Vedado homes/Casas del vedado (1938):] A Chinese fan -- Un abanico chino -- The gobelin tapestry -- El gobelino -- In the family -- En familia -- A slippery slope -- En la pendiente -- [from House of cards/Castillo de naipes (1998):] Rooms -- Los cuartos -- Eleggua spray -- Elegguá spray -- [from Rounds on the malecón/Ronda en el malecón (2004):] On returning -- Volver -- At the water's edge -- En la orilla -- A five-hundred-year-old rum -- Añejo cinco siglos -- About the author -- Sobre la autora -- About the translator -- Sobre la traductora.