The Acidic Fruits

Alfonso Hernández Catá published The Acidic Fruits (Los frutos ácidos) for the first time in Madrid in 1919. This book contains three stories:

• The Labyrinth
• The skin
• and The Dead.

The protagonists of The Acidic Fruits are characters of different races, sexes and social groups portrayed with intensity, full of conflicts and aspirations.
Hernández Catá was considered in life one of the best Cuban writers of all time. Editor of the Diario de la Marina, one of the most influential newspapers in the country, and with a diplomatic career from a very young age, his work has the cosmopolitan breath of the enlightened traveler and, in turn, the penetrating gaze of those who perceive and narrate with depth the most dissimilar situations.