Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Keywords: havana, quartet, gold
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1904738281
ISBN-13: 9781904738282
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: havana, inside
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2002-09
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0811833437
ISBN-13: 9780811833431
An elegant hotel now serving as an elementary school...the parlor of a grand mansion transformed into a barbershop...these are Havana’s most intimate spaces. Having enjoyed four years of unprecedented access to the private interiors of Cuba’s capital, Andrew Moore has created an unrivaled portrait of both its legendary historic architecture and the city’s inner life. These rich and elegiac images capture intimate details and sensuous moods, creating an open-ended drama that unfolds with each viewing. Painterly light lends grandeur to Havana’s most unlikely landmarks. Andrew Moore’s w
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Keywords: red, havana
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1904738095
ISBN-13: 9781904738091
“A magnificent novel. Haunted by the tragic story and passion of its characters.”—Magazine Littéraire The first of the Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A young transvestite in a beautiful red dress is found strangled in a Havana park. Conde’s investigation into a violent murder exposes a stifling, corrupt society, a Cuban reality where nothing is what it seems. A dark and fascinating world of men and women born in the revolution who live without dreaming of exile and seek their identity in the midst of disaster. Leonardo Padura lives in Cuba. He is a
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Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Keywords: moment, revolutionary, havana
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1884167098
ISBN-13: 9781884167096
This unique collection of never-before-seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn records Fidel Castro’s historic entry into Havana four decades ago. In the introductory memoir, Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana on New Year’s Eve, 1959. The photographs he returned with - of Fidel thronged by his countrymen and women as he stops to encourage them along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets - are full of th
Author: Stephen Hunter
Publisher: Pocket Books
Keywords: havana
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 074326102X
ISBN-13: 9780743261029
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Keywords: fever, havana
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1904738362
ISBN-13: 9781904738367
“The finest crime-fiction writer in the Spanish language...”--The London Times “Full of atmosphere and descriptions to savour, this is as much a life-affirming tribute to Havana as a fine novel of death and detection.”--The Independent “Police work is not merely a vocation but a metaphor for a futile yearning to solve the island’s deepest crimes and misdemeanours.”--Times Literary Supplement Mario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunter
Author: Colin Harrison
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, room, havana
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312427018
ISBN-13: 9780312427016
Bill Wyeth is a rising real estate attorney living the lofty heights of success. Then a tragic accident claims everything he has: his family, his fortune, his career. But this is Manhattan, and Bill has much further to fall. His downward spiral lands him at the table of Allison Sparks, the dangerously alluring owner of a midtown steakhouse. She needs a personal favor of him--to engineer a midnight trade-off in a shady multimillion-dollar real estate deal. For a man with nothing left to lose, the set-up is too lucrative to refuse, and like Allison, too forbidden to resist. But her favor draws h
