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Pedro Merino: Freelance writer. He has ventured into poetry, narrative, essay, journalism, and literary script for a movie. His first published book was Quinta de la Caridad, Juan March Novel Prize, Spain, 2003. He has written dozens of books for children, young people, and adults, on various topics, both fiction and non-fiction, available on Amazon.
SYNOPSIS OF THE NOVELS
“Tayno Cubao”
The author, through
reliable historical documents, manages to interact with real and fictional
characters. How did they catch to the cacique Hatuey, symbol of rebellion Taino?
Were there two caciques Caguax, or two Hatuey’s captains? Does the Taino
ethnicity survived the Spanish conquest to the point of keeping their native
roots? Was father Las Casas honest about his writings on the West Indies? What
factors influenced the excessive use of force by Christians, or Spanish
conquistadors? Through an agile and vivacious language, the author
answers these and many other questions thanks to an engaging story and
discourse that will appeal to readers.
Historical novel, 300 pages. Registered: 10-585-301 (Colombia)
"Body of Spirit"
The plot takes place in Havana at the beginning of the third millennium. Gary, a young Cuban painter, suffers Syndrome
Blank Canvas, who is trying to minimize it through his uncle Febles, owner of
the boat Daydream, who is an experienced fisherman licensed 50s to fish on the
northern coast Havana. Gary is inspired by the seabed to enrich his imagination
of artist, who is far away in a migratory adventure beyond the sea horizon. He
is lucky enough to find a mysterious cylindrical object trapped by the reefs in
Boca Chipiona, Santa Cruz del Norte, area the wreck of the Spanish frigate "Navigator",
based in real events, it occurred on February 4, 1814, and it being victim of
looting from fishermen and divers, etc., where Gary discovers a cylindrical
object that appears to be related to the wreck. It is a look at the visual arts,
from figurative painting to abstract painting through various facets more where
the ambition, the plagiarism, the fame, merge with history and make an
encounter with the true artist.
Note: an original
title, "Trilogy Flat on the Caribbean," juvenile-child theme, a work written
and recorded in Colombia, 112 pages.
"Breath of Wind Attentive"
The plot unfolds in a
nursery room where some children are engaged to play in a small fishbowl. To do
this they used toy packages in plastic and lead miniatures, as "The
village of Magcaguas", and "Scientific expedition of Engineer
SABA", beings made of wind and water that sniff their homeland from a
distance. Absurd elements like elephants resting on the snow, butterflies
fluttering in a snowstorm, crocodiles swimming in icy waters, etc., where the
imagination of children goes beyond the aspirations of the characters,
handcuffed and prone to disappearances in each habitat, where the stroke of
effect, or the unexpected, it will to the reader a second reading in end
developer about each miniature toy.
Note: an original
title, "Trilogy Flat on the Caribbean," juvenile-child theme, a work written
and recorded in Colombia, 93 pages.
"Quinta de la Caridad" (Operation ¨Fula¨)
A marriage was dedicated write letters with different targets. He dreams that will come out of prison. Former Manager Jaime Sardinas thinks he is right and his wife believes he will return to the restaurant El Bodegón whose revenues were in dollars. Captain Veitía and his assistant Rodriguez, will try to make realize the dream of a marriage of two children. The culprit that the former Manager is in prision commits a murder in the Quinta de la Caridad , a mansion whose owner left the country in 1959 and this residence was given to people who had not to live. Captain Veitía and his assistant Rodriguez will investigate the crime scene where they fall face forward with a precarious reality: drugs, prostitution and illegal businesses teem unchecked, besides dreams and hopes to betting for a better life.
A marriage was dedicated write letters with different targets. He dreams that will come out of prison. Former Manager Jaime Sardinas thinks he is right and his wife believes he will return to the restaurant El Bodegón whose revenues were in dollars. Captain Veitía and his assistant Rodriguez, will try to make realize the dream of a marriage of two children. The culprit that the former Manager is in prision commits a murder in the Quinta de la Caridad , a mansion whose owner left the country in 1959 and this residence was given to people who had not to live. Captain Veitía and his assistant Rodriguez will investigate the crime scene where they fall face forward with a precarious reality: drugs, prostitution and illegal businesses teem unchecked, besides dreams and hopes to betting for a better life.
As reported by the
Foundation Bartolomé March, the novel presents a "quick and lively style,
tasty cubanismos, and phonetic touch
of different talks from Havana and references to customs and products of the
local ordinary life." It was
selected from a hundred works.
96 pp. First Edition. Editions Bitzoc, Spain
"The Stamp"
An enthralling thriller
where two young men meet again after many years. One of them is criminalist;
the other a murderer in series who puts a stamp on the forehead of their
victims and shoot them to the genitals. Captain Veitía, and his assistant
Rodriguez, will be responsible to decipher the letters of the stamp and
inclinations in the forehead to portray to the murderer by interviewing
witnesses. A narrator character and friend of the murderer of the stamp he will
be narrating and describing the reader to show them the author of serial
crimes.
98 pp.
"The Twin Case"
After catching the
murderer of the stamp, the captain Veitía and his assistant Rodriguez will
travel to an intricate rural school looking for two sisters, Katia and Kenya
Hernandez and his girlfriend, Sandra
Suarez, from the same classroom, which were missing the education center. Through
unexpected twists, interviews with students and teachers, the reader will
discover a love story, a separate family, and a pair of perplexed
criminologists in which was a junior high school.
109 pp.
"The Country of the Ciguaraya"
"The Country of the Ciguaraya"
A Spanish couple
travels to Havana. She is of Cuban origin and shows to her loved one various
historical places of the city, as well as bizarre places. However, they cannot
share their privacy in a dollarized hotel and they will make the decision to
hire a rent a room of a Cuban family hotel. Her husband rented a bike and he
went for a walk around the outskirts of Havana and so, he disappeared. Intriguing
thriller where the captain Veitia and his assistant Rodriguez will attempt to
decipher the dialect lucumí from the
murderers in an illuminating ending.
139 pp.
"Friendship is a Street of Havana"
Sergeant Rodriguez
waits in the comfort of his comfortable home, a new murder case. Sergeant
Rodriguez receives a novel from a neighbor where the characters of Osmel Brito
and Chava Henriquez, obsessed with emigrating without success, are obliged to
consult the Babalao Alfonso, which
will reveal their destinations, where they will know characters of marginal and
intellectual world.
115 pp.
"Prisoners do not Drink
a Bowl of Soup"
Jabico, Asere and Monina,
three marginalized characters, narrate from the patio of a place of men without
women why they committed killings and how they were captured by the captain
Veitía and his assistant Rodriguez. There are three stories of humor and
resignation where it is advisable to consult the Glossary of cubanismos to the end of the book in
order to understand the words and phraseology of these three characters in each
story whose outcome enjoins us to reflect.
152 pp.
"Separate Illusions"
Captain Veitía during a
short vacation, he feel lazy and decides to read again Anguish Coat, a novel
confiscated by customs of a Cuban airport that a friend gave him. This novel is
about the Suarez family, who lived in Havana and believes that within 72 hours they
could reach Miami. First they have to scale across multiple airlines of the
Lesser Antilles. But they remain bogged down on the island of Antigua where
they will decide to travel in a precarious boat toward one of the US Virgin
Islands in search of the Cuban Adjustment Act.
181 pp.