'Here is a Cuban writer that matters. Havana: Between the Sky and Heaven is a beautiful and powerful story, one that has got all the ingredients of Cuban life: success and failure, sex and violence. '

                      Carlos Acosta -- Principal Dancer, Royal Opera House, London


'Intense, captivating, passionate, cinematic. Latin America has a new master of fiction treading in the footsteps of Juan Rulfo, García Márquez, Ernesto Sábato and Roa Bastos. From the lush tropical gardens of his Cuban childhood, the fading charm of Hispanic Havana, his dramatic escape on a raft amid the storms and shark-infested waters of the Caribbean to the decadent atmosphere of London, New York and Paris, Roosevelt lives his odyssey in search of freedom, love and self-identity. His failures, losses and suffering drive him forward with relentless volcanic force. This breathless journey of self-discovery carries the protagonist through a Cuban Heart of Darkness like Dante ' s seven circles of the Inferno to an apotheosis of purity, imagination and redemption.'
        
            George Stanica -- former Radio Producer, BBC World Service


Challenging the boundaries of fiction, Havana: Between the Sky and Heaven takes the reader on a rol lercoaster journey through Cuba in the 1990s, years that shook Havana and its revolution. In the face of insurmountable difficulties, Pineiro's protagonist, Roosevelt, and his friends take to sea in makeshift rafts in pursuit of freedom. The narrator who flees to London, tells of the demise of those who die, others who must suffer prison and yet others who live to compare their rueful tales of triumph. The reader will find also that special places in the narrative have been reserved for the jineteras or prostitutes of Havana, for Ernest Hemingway's skipper, Gregorio, and for the celebrated Cuban dancer, Carlos Acosta.