Edmundo Desnoes (Havana, Cuba, 1930), is a Cuban writer author of the novel Memorias del subdesarrollo  (Memories of Underdevelopment), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois  intellectual struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution staying on the island after his family decides to leave the country.
Edmundo Desnoes, a Cuban writer born in Havana in 1930, is known for his novel *Memorias del subdesarrollo* (Memories of Underdevelopment), which depicts the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois intellectual struggling to adapt to the Revolution and its effects on his life while remaining on the island.