Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba - Rilegato

Gimbel, Wendy

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ISBN 10: 0679430539 ISBN 13: 9780679430537

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

A portrait of four generations of Cuban women, members of the Revuelta family, is set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Cuban history, describing the impact of familial obligation, illicit romance, and revolution on the Revuelta women

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L'autore:

Wendy Gimbel made many childhood visits to the family of her paternal grandmother in pre-Castro Cuba. She later went on to receive a Ph.D. in English literature, and is the author of a scholarly book on Edith Wharton. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Mirabella, The Nation, and other publications. She has two grown sons and lives with her husband in New York City.

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g, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women, through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture--both personal and historical--of Cuba in our century.

"When I want to read a culture," writes Wendy Gimbel in her prologue, "I listen to stories about families, sensing in their contours the substance of larger mysteries." And certainly in the Revuelta family she has found a source of both mystery and revelation.

At its center is Naty: born in 1925, educated in the United States, a socialite during the Batista era, who after marriage to a prominent doctor and the birth of a daughter became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution (here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while he was in jail). Though her husband and daughter immigrated to the United States after Castro's victory, Naty remained in Cuba to raise her second child, Castro's unacknowledged daughter, only to be ultimately confronted by his dis

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679430539
• ISBN 13: 9780679430537
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 234