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Among Friends: Travels in Cuba

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba
  • Author(s): Heather Murray
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba is a lively account of one person’s discovery of Cuba and Cubans over a decade-long series of visits. Murray falls in love with the country but never stops asking questions as her radius of...

Cuba and the Night

Cuba and the Night
  • Author(s): Pico Iyer
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

This is the love story between an international photojournalist and a young Cuban woman, as seen through the photographer’s eyes, the complexities of a relationship in the broadest sense, and life in Cuba.

Death under the Perseids (A Havana Mystery Book 4)

Death under the Perseids (A Havana Mystery Book 4)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa Dovalpage’s addictively clever new Havana mystery. Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize...

Dreaming in Cuban

Dreaming in Cuban
  • Author(s): Cristina Garcia
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s-1980s

Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980....

Havana

Havana
  • Author(s): Stephen Hunter
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

A pacy thriller in 1950s Havana, drawing the reader into the complexities of Cuban life, and economic and political mele.

Havana Bay

Havana Bay
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Former Inspector for the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko, is summoned to Cuba to identify a liquefying corpse, dragged from the oily waters of Havana Bay. Renko finds himself in a decaying country, the final recess of Communism – a...

Havana Fever

Havana Fever
  • Author(s): Leonardo Padura
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2003

This author is known as Leonardo Padura Fuentes in Cuba. The story starts Havana, the year 2003 – 14 years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. Now an antique book trader,...

King of Cuba

King of Cuba
  • Author(s): Cristina Garcia
  • Location(s): Havana, Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

El Comandante, an aging Castro-like dictator shambles about his mansion in Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers in one of his prisons, and grapples with the stale end of his life that is as devoid of grandeur...

Last Dance in Havana

Last Dance in Havana
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Bristol, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and 2012

Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to...

Living La Vida Loca

Living La Vida Loca
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Havana, Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Carmen has been feeling the need to break free for Too Darn Long. So when her equally frustrated friend Beth suggests the ultimate escape – dancing their way through a series of scorchingly-hot countries – she can’t resist! There’s...

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