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| Author: | Ernest Hemingway |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 76811 |
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Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. Here, is a perfectly crafted story, a...
| Author: | Pedro Juan Gutiérrez |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 134061 |
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“Dirty Havana Trilogy” tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascinated by his predicament. Working as a garbage-man...
| Author: | Leonardo Padura |
| Publisher: | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Catalogue number: | 149931 |
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“Havana Red” is the first of Leonardo Padura’s awesome Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde; making Padura a Caribbean Ellroy if you will. And like the best of...
| Author: | Graham Greene |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 135349 |
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One of Graham Greene’s most popular books, “Our Man in Havana” has all the usual trademarks of a Greene novel (foreign locale, one man, a higher power and the perversion thereof), except instead of...
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On the outskirts of the sleepy little beach town of Baracoa, in semi-tropical eastern Cuba, there is a chocolate factory. The local delicacy, somewhat bizarrely called Peter's, is produced there - as all the guidebooks will inform you. What most of them don't say is that this factory was inaugurated by none other than 'El Che' himself...
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