This book incorporates both the novella by Edmundo Desnoe, and the script of the movie by Tomas Guttierez. It is the story of a bourgeois writer who chooses to stay behind in Cuba when his family leaves for Miami --- and must struggle to adapt to a new and somewhat absurd social order. With biographical sketches, chronology of the revolution, reviews and commentary.  (CBA12, $24.00)