Ballad of Ventas Prison

by Jorge Garcia and Fidel Martinez
Translated by Anna Kushner

Anna Kushner translates from Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She is the translator of three books, The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales (New Directions), The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes (W.W. Norton), and Jerusalem by Gonçalo Tavares (Dalkey Archive). Her writing has appeared in Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2008, The Bucks County Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Ep;phany, and Wild River Review.

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