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In the documentary, CapoteвЂ™s friends tell how the play became an obsession for him and that he even ended up developing amorous feelings for Perry Smith, whom they eventually executed in Kansas. To write it, he went to a rural town in Kansas, where a family had been murdered by Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, whom he interviewed exhaustively over a period of six years. Let us not forget that he is the author of вЂњIn Cold BloodвЂќ, one of the most important works of American literature, which he himself called the beginning of non-fiction literature. But Capote did not stop, convinced that it was going to be the most important work of his life in which society was faithfully portrayed, and for that, the revelation of secrets was somehow necessary. This caused many friends, especially the so-called swans of the jet set, to leave him aside, offended by his stories published in magazines. Aware that he did not belong to them and very much aware of his humble origins, the stories that made up вЂњPlegarias atendidasвЂќ are sometimes cruel and humiliating, endowed with a realism based on hearsay that made it possible to identify with the real character. But just as high society thrived on his clever humor, he in turn, watched them for years.

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His eloquent and sometimes ruthless comments, full of humor and accompanied by a childish and playful voice, led him to popularity in a still corseted and boring society. He was an openly homosexual man, strange for the time, but he also knew that this made him unique and tried to take advantage of it. 'The fresh panorama of Cuban society today is painted without taboos or constraints, with a faith in human possibilities, and above all with a courage that stems from what is most legitimate and durable in ourselves.'-Nancy Morejon, author of Looking Within: Selected Poems and Piedra Pulida 'A Corner of the World is about desires and dreams, and, of course, about love.'-Achy Obejas, author of Days of Awe and Ruins 'Like the best of Truman Capote, another master of the short novel, Mylene Fernandez gives us a cast of unforgettable characters: contradictory, complex, and human.'-Fernando Perez, director of Suite Habana, Life Is to Whistle, and Madagascar 'To read this book is to encounter one of the best and most intimate works of Cuban literature of the 21st century.'-Mabel Cuesta, author of Cuba post-sovietica: un cuerpo narrado en clave de mujer 'A sad, erotic, tender, and sometimes ironic tale of passion and desertion.the city becomes a co-protagonist, a confidante, a point of departure and return, and of waiting.If anything is clear from the documentary directed by Ebs Burnough, it is that Truman Capote had a singular and striking character that provoked admiration, вЂњeveryone wanted to sit next to him at dinner parties,вЂќ says a journalist friend of his in the documentary.

Theirs is the story of an intense and impossible love, set in today's Havana, a city where there can be no plans, where chance is the order of the day and a fierce sense of loyalty and pride coexists with the desire to live beyond the island's isolation.

When she's asked to review the work of a young, ambitious first-time novelist, she meets Daniel, and their love affair leads her to question both the choices she's made so far in her life and the opportunities she might yet still have.

A cautious, reserved professor of Spanish Literature, Marian has no idea that her quiet life is about to be turned upside down. Her story of lost love and the difficult pursuit of literature is at the same time an X-ray of life in Havana, set in a present where glimpses of the future have not yet arrived.'-Leonardo Padura, author of The Man Who Loved Dogs and the Mario Conde novels of Havana In contemporary Havana, 'Do I stay or do I go?' is always the question, and love doesn't necessarily conquer all. 'Mylene Fernandez offers us a magnificent gift.

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