The Greatest Performance

by Elías Miguel Muñoz

This gripping novel about the psychological and emotional energy spent when one must confront taboos is the painful and poetic rendering of two lives-Rosita and Marito-that become lost to country, family, and lovers.

151 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1991

About the author

Born September 29, 1954, in Cuba, heemigrated to the United States with my parents and younger brother at the age of fifteen. I arrived in Los Angeles in 1969 to finish my high school education in Hawthorne, a suburb of L.A., later attending the University of California, Irvine, where I earned an MA in Spanish (1979) and a PhD in Latin American literature (1984).