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The Weasel and the Whore

Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

Translated by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue

Héloïse Press

Paperback

160pp

ISBN: 9781738459452

Fiction

Publication date: 15 October 2025

£10.95

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A grim underground portrait of today’s Cuba, where young people struggle to shake off the vestiges of Castroism.

From Monday to Saturday, Mary is a young and talented artist in the artistic, bohemian and fringe circles of Havana. But on Sundays, Mary becomes the sex toy of a high official of the regime. Her condition as a woman and artist, bisexual and alienated from Castroism, inevitably pushes her towards social exclusion, and Mary begins to need a strong reason to remain in Cuba.