Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill / Cirilo Villaverde ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane ; edited with an introduction and notes by Sibylle Fischer.

by Cirilo Villaverde

"Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill is arguably the most important novel of colonial Cuba." When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper-class woman, Cecilia…