Havana Blue

Author : Pamela Ruiz
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1649800045
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Blues written by Pamela Ruiz and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crumbling pastel-colored facades line its streets, parked vintage cars evoke times past, live music permeates the air. Welcome to Havana, home to an overwhelming energy. Situated along the Straits of Florida, the capital of Cuba has been through several identities: Spanish colonial settlement, mobster rule in the 1930s, glamour of the 1950s, Cuban revolution and, most recently, a cultural renaissance. Havana’s bold, provocative approach to art, cuisine and entertainment—as well as the eclectic blend of African, French, Spanish and North American influences—including its range of architecture styles from the sixteenth century to the modern day, confer this epic city with a legendary status on par with the world’s greatest cities. While some of the building are in disrepair, the beauty of the baroque, neoclassical and art deco features triumphs. The iconic Copa Room cabaret that hosted Ginger Rogers and Abbott and Costello still stands. The Gran Teatro de la Habana, built in the early twentieth century, is now home to the Cuban National Ballet. Habana Vieja is undergoing a massive restoration to its former glory. Havana could be seen as a work-in-progress, but it is more a testament to its never-ending determination to improve and progress, which might be the allure that attracts so many visitors. So take a seat at an authentic paladar (family-run restaurant) and enjoy the vibrant evolution of Havana.

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1904738869
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Blue written by Leonardo Padura and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.

Author : Delia Poey
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611922073
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Havana Blues written by Delia Poey and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Havana Blues is a medley of voicesÑnarrators, essayists and poetsÑthat have come to forge a literary identity within the United States since their parents left Cuba to go into exile. However, this first comprehensive anthology of Cuban-American literature is not a symphony of the exile or immigrant generation and its letters. Instead, these writers are staking their claim on part of the American mosaic, with Pulitzer Prices and other awards in hand. But in their Americanization they are not rejecting their heritage or their Hispanic culture; rather they are Cubanizing, tropicalizing, expanding the realm of American culture and letters. Their vision is inclusive; their sources go deep into Anglo- and Hispano-European tradition and as deeply into Afro-Caribbean and mestizo culture, not to mention their love affair with popular culture and its icons. Included in Little Havana Blues are writers both established and burgeoning onto the literary scene: Pulitzer Prize winter Oscar Hijuelos, Rafael Compo, Gustavo PŽrez Firmat, Margarita Engle, Roberto Fern‡ndez, Dolores Prida, Jose Yglesias and many others. Accompanying the selections are an introduction and bibliography by the editors.

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1904738877
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Black written by Leonardo Padura and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1904738893
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Fever written by Leonardo Padura and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.

Author : Daniel Chavarria
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 : 1912697041
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Havana written by Daniel Chavarria and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics to fully comprehend… On the day of their graduation, a group of students spend the night drinking around the ‘Fountain of Youth’, ironically celebrating the bright future that doesn’t await them… The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana’s citizens have had to endure as a result of their country’s political isolation – from the hardships of the ‘Special Period’, to the pitfalls of Cuba’s schizophrenic currency system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods – from the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs of the Malecón and Vedado – these stories also demonstrate the defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Séamas Carraher.

Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0345390458
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Bay written by Martin Cruz Smith and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the murder of a Russian man in Cuba.

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1904738095
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Red written by Leonardo Padura and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1627796428
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Way to Havana written by Margarita Engle and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So we purr, cara cara, and we glide, taka taka, and we zoom, zoom, ZOOM! A family drives into the city of Havana to celebrate a cousin's first birthday. Before their journey, the boy helps his papa tune up their old car, Cara Cara, which has been in their family for many years. They drive along the sea wall, along the coast, past other colorful old cars. The sounds of the city are rich--the putt putts and honks and bumpety bumps of other cars chorus through the streets. A rich celebration of the culture of the Cuban people, their resourcefulness and innovative spirit, and their joy.

Author : Paul Goldstein
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466802278
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Requiem written by Paul Goldstein and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by alcohol and legal brilliance, Michael Seeley once oversaw his law firm's most successful litigation. Until it all fell apart. Recklessness and overreach cost him his wife, his job, and likely the life of his last client, a Chinese dissident journalist. Havana Requiem, the latest Seeley novel from the acclaimed author Paul Goldstein, opens after a year's sobriety has earned Seeley back most of what he lost: the partnership in his Manhattan law firm, if not his corner office; the wary respect of most of his partners; the lucrative clients—but not the gin-sharpened passion. Then the renowned Cuban musician Héctor Reynoso enters his office with a simple request: help him and other composers who defined Cuba's musical golden age of the 1940s and '50s—the music that made the Buena Vista Social Club internationally famous—reclaim the copyright to their work. When Reynoso goes missing, Seeley's reluctant promise to help draws him progressively deeper into Havana's violent underbelly and a decades-long conspiracy that runs from the partners in his firm to the U.S. State Department to Cuba's security police, who are willing to do anything to suppress the truth. In the heat of Havana, Seeley will lose himself to his worst and best passions as his pursuit of justice becomes a desperate gambit to save not only his composers but the stunning Amaryll, who is playing her own dangerous game.