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Quirino, the Knight of the Malecón
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ISBN13: 9798276140339
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
El Hidalgo del Malecón is an epic-popular chronicle that blends humor, myth, memory, and pain to narrate Cuba's recent history through the eyes of a lucid madman and a beloved squire. Quirino Hidalgo, son of the sea and of truth, decides to confront the windmills of power with a broom for a spear and words as his only armor. At his side, Pancho-neighborhood chronicler and accidental philosopher-records the daily life of Cubans: the endless queues, the infinite ingenuity, the inherited fear, the blackouts, the laughter that heals, the music that resists, and the dignity that never dies. Through scenes that combine satire, tenderness, and spirituality, the book creates a kind of Caribbean Don Quixote, where political absurdity coexists with human beauty. Here, the sea has memory, the streets whisper, humor becomes a shield, and words become homeland. It is a work that does not seek to provide answers, but rather to raise questions; it does not seek bronze heroes, but living people. A tribute to the ordinary Cuban, to their unheroic pains, their unpermitted laughter, and their almost miraculous ability to keep dreaming even when reality insists on the contrary. A book for those who love Cuba, for those who miss it, for those who fear it, and for those who still believe that a story told with truth can change a destiny.
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