Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba - Brossura

Gimbel, Wendy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860494625 ISBN 13: 9781860494628

Casa editrice: Virago Press Ltd, 1999

Riassunto

A fascinating, powerfully evocative account of four generations of Cuban women: Naty Revuelta, born in 1925, a socialite during the Batista era, who became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution; Naty's mother, an unregenerate reactionary, and Naty's two daughters, one of whom is the illegitimate and unacknowledged child of Castro. Each of the women's lives is shaped by a part of the island's terrible and poignant contemporary history, and together they weave a tapestry - at once intimate and revelatory - of Cuba in our century.

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Recensione:

A haunting WILD SWANS-type inter-weaving of four female generations in revolution-riven Cuba. An elegiac portrait of a fairy-tale island (MAIL ON SUNDAY)

HAVANA DREAMS is a different sort of Cuban tale. An entertaining and enlightening book (SUNDAY TIMES)

This is a remarkable book about love, disillusionment and exile, a tale which in its own simple way tells as much about Cuba as any political treatise or weighty economic analysis (FINANCIAL TIMES)

An elegaic portrait of a fairy tale island, evoked through the lives of the women Castro rejected. MAIL ON SUNDAY

A book about passions - for love, memory and the ever-shifting pageantry of life and history that is Cuba (Oscar Hijuelos)

A shimmering book (New York Times Book Review)

Descrizione del libro:

* The riveting account of four generations of women whose lives paint a picture both intimate and historical of Cuba in our century.

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• Editore: Virago Press Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1860494625
• ISBN 13: 9781860494628
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224