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Title: Unsophisticated nostalgic trip into the past
Review: Muerto el perro... is a mediocre narrative by an obvioiusly aging Cuban exile who dwells in his memories of a country and time gone by. However, unlike more sucessful writers of the Cuban diaspora, Miralejos fails to capture and captivate a more sophisticated reading public. He rambles on with a story of very transparent personal anecdotes that appear more like a cathartic exercise down memory lane. The language in the story is a mixture of Cuban registers and some other Latin American register--possibly his editors', thus sounding more like a fake to a Cuban (Cuban-American) who is very familiar with authentic Cuban choices of words and expressions. The novel reads flat and lacks sophistication of thought and plot. Not worth buying unless you want to offer a donation to the author.
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