Los intrusos
Carlos Manuel Álvarez

NONFICTION | 2023 | 144 pages

WINNER OF THE 2022 ANAGRAMA/UANL SERGIO GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ CRÓNICA PRIZE

In Los intrusos, Carlos Manuel Álvarez explores recent events in his native Cuba, specifically his experience during the 2020 protests organized by the San Isidro Movement that brought together over two hundred Cuban artists, intellectuals, and activists.

The protests took place in 2020 after the detention of the rapper Denis Solís. Los intrusos is a detailed chronicle of the peaceful movement that shook the island for multiple days, and that the author was a part of. Aside from his firsthand experience, the action is woven together with the profiles of some of the protagonists of the events.

Revolution, dictatorship, totalitarianism: a book that tells the story of the of the historical drift of the Cuban Revolution and its regime from perspectives that go beyond the Cold War and focus on the concrete conditions of the Cuban reality and the Latin American context.

A detailed exercise in observation about a movement that changed the Cuban political map forever, and a reflection on the role of journalism, writing, and art.

RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL ANAGRAMA

BY CARLOS MANUEL ÁLVAREZ:

Los intrusos
NONFICTION, 2023
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Los caídos
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La tribu
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