Memories of Underdevelopment A Novel from Cuba

Malabre is an upper middle-class Cuban businessman with an intellectual bent. He chooses to remain in Cuba after the Bay of Pigs without his family and friends. Dissatisfied with his life, he hopes to find a more authentic existence. To break his crippling isolation, he as an affair with a young girl, which culminates in his trial for statutory rape.Edmundo Desnoes began his literary career in the 1950s, went to New York in 1956, returned to Cuba in 1959, and defected to the U.S. in 1979. Desnoes is also the author of "No Hay Problema" (There Is No Problem) 1961, and "El Cataclismo" (The Cataclysm) 1965. The publication of the sequel for "Memories of Underdevelopment" is expected imminently.Desnoes, Edmundo is the author of 'Memories of Underdevelopment A Novel from Cuba', published 2004 under ISBN 9781891270185 and ISBN 1891270184.