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Guillermo Rosales

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Havana, Cuba

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Rosales was a Cuban novelist. A double exile, writing in reaction both to Cuba's totalitarian regime and to the indifference of Cuban-American exiles bent on achieving the American Dream, Rosales created some of the best Cuban literature of the second half of the twentieth century.

Born in Havana, Rosales was a lifelong misfit diagnosed with schizophrenia. A journalist and writer while still in Cuba, he had an early brush with fame when his novel El Juego de la Viola, was a finalist in the reputable "Casa de las Americas" contest. But in 1979 he fled Castro's regime and went into exile in Miami, where he disappeared from public view. He ended up in halfway houses, "those marginal refuges where the desperate and hopeless go." The time he spe ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,849 ratings · 237 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Felaketzedeler Evi by Guillermo Rosales, Gökhan Aksay (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 1,808 ratings — published 1987 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leapfrog by Guillermo Rosales, Anna Kushner (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Halfway House (New Directions Paperbook) [Paperback] [2009] (Author) Guillermo Rosales, Anna Kushner, José Manuel Prieto by Guillermo Rosales, Unknown Author it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letras De Oro 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Guillermo Rosales (?)

“Si, mi cielo...”
― Guillermo Rosales, The Halfway House

tags: despair, hope, hopelessness, surrender

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“La miro. Me mira duro. No hay piedad en sus ojos secos. Bajamos. La casa decía “boarding home”. Es una de esas casas que recogen la escoria de la vida. Seres de ojos vacíos, mejillas secas, bocas desdentadas, cuerpos sucios.”
― Guillermo Rosales, The Halfway House (New Directions Paperbook) [Paperback] [2009] (Author) Guillermo Rosales, Anna Kushner, José Manuel Prieto

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