Publisher's Synopsis
'A potent, engrossing meditaton on sex, power and the places where each becomes indistinguishable from the other' - Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours Late at night, alone in his cell in a decaying Havana prison, a young American writes a letter to his Cuban lover. In it, he struggles to find peace and a greater understanding of how their fiery love affair could have disintegrated so tragically into obsession, jealousy and violence. Because in the morning, he will face a firings squad for a murder he did not commit.