Havana Blues
Title | Havana Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Ruiz |
Publisher | Assouline Publishing |
Total Pages | 6 |
Release | 2021-07-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1649800045 |
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.
Havana Blue
Title | Havana Blue PDF eBook |
Author | Leonardo Padura |
Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2007-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1904738869 |
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.
Little Havana Blues
Title | Little Havana Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Delia Poey |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781611922073 |
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.
Havana Black
Title | Havana Black PDF eBook |
Author | Leonardo Padura |
Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2006-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1904738877 |
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
Havana Fever
Title | Havana Fever PDF eBook |
Author | Leonardo Padura |
Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2009-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1904738893 |
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
The Book of Havana
Title | The Book of Havana PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Chavarria |
Publisher | Comma Press |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2018-06-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1912697041 |
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.
Havana Red
Title | Havana Red PDF eBook |
Author | Leonardo Padura |
Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1904738095 |
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.