Three Trapped Tigers

Infante, born in Cuba, was a supporter of the revolution and a cultural attache to Brussels under Castro's regime until his journal was censored and shut down by the new government. In 1965 he went into exile and b ecme one of the earliest and most outspoken of Castro's Cuban critics. Having translated Manuel Puig, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and other notable authors, Suzanne Jill Levine is one of the most highly regarded translators of contemporary Latin American literature. She is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction.