The novel “La Habana, año cero”, by the uban Karla Suarez, won the 2012 Carbet del Caribe Award, a distinction created in 1990 to reward and promote fiction and reflections works that illustrate unity and diversity of the Caribbean and Americas.

The plot includes three characters fascinated by the story of Antonio Meucci, an Italian who lived in the Cuban capital city in the 19th century and who went ahead the American Bell in the invention of the telephone.

The protagonists of the story—according to the critic it is developed as a mathematical enigma—are worried about finding a probative document on the originality of Meucci’s innovation.

Karla Suarez, an engineer, published in 1999 her first book of stories titled “Espuma” and that same year she won in Spain the Lengua de Trapo Award due to her novel “Silencios”.

Translation: Adriana Pérez (Cubarte)