Manuel C. D az was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1942. In 1966 he was imprisoned for trying to leave the country in a boat. Along with four thousand other Cuban political prisoners, he was pardoned in 1979. Since that date, he has resided in the city of Miami. He has written several books: El a o del ras de mar (1993), a short novel in which he narrated part of the horror that the Cuban people have lived through. A paradise under the stars (1996), a...