Cover of the novel Isla de la Juventud, by Yunior Santana and Gilberto Reyes

Novel

Isla de la Juventud

Synopsis

Synopsis


A group of passionate archaeology students make a discovery that could rewrite world history, shaking even the Pillars of Hercules themselves. But this find holds a powerful secret that the Cuban regime will try to hide at any price.

The sickest fanaticism will disguise itself as deep loyalty to an oppressive leader capable of destroying family ties without a face or a surname, bloodying every kind of emotional bond, and exterminating anyone who tries to alter his roadmap, merely by breathing the smoke of one of his everlasting cigars.

A final blank page, waiting to be written, will pit ambition at its height against a deep passion for history, in a duel in which only one will manage to set their ink upon it, sealing it with a definitive final stop.

Isla de la Juventud is a choral novel, full of action, in which each reader will choose their heroes and point out the villains, making every character an absolute and unquestionable protagonist.

How many lives must be taken to hide a state secret?

How many souls must be sacrificed to rewrite history?