Firefly by Severo Sarduy
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 295 KB
Overview: Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world as a threatening conspiracy. Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba’s isolation in the world.
Firefly is a fanciful and bitter composite portrait of Havana, past and present, as seen through the eyes and dreams of a mentally deficient youth named “Firefly,” who is described as “melon-headed” and “Chinese-eyed” and begins the story sitting on a chamber pot.
Firefly’s adventures are a series of encounters, embarrassments, revelations and escapes, many of them so surreal that Firefly convinces himself they are dreams or hallucinations. But the same bizarre and sordid characters keep turning up, leading him to conclude that he is surrounded by a diabolical conspiracy that is turning the city into a cesspit of vice.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
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