300 Reasons To Love Havana

Author : Heidi Hollinger
Publisher : Juniper Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1988002621

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300 Reasons to Love Havana by Heidi Hollinger Pdf

Discover the colourful soul of Havana with renowned photographer Heidi Hollinger! Heidi Hollinger first travelled to Havana in 1988 and has been returning often for almost 30 years. On every trip to Cuba’s capital, she visits Selene, her adoptive grandmother. She truly knows the city intimately. Like Heidi, you’ll be dazzled by Havana—the city’s endless visual feast will blow you away. She’ll introduce you to the peanut vendor who calls out “Mani” (peanuts) and offers his wares in a white paper cone; to Cuban women draped in colours and standing in doorways; and to barefoot children playing soccer in public squares. Heidi’s expert eye captures the extraordinary beauty of the Baroque and Spanish Colonial architecture, which bears witness to 400 years of history, the vibrancy of Cuba’s music, the country’s new cuisine, the rooftop terraces, the thrill of getting around by almendrón (vintage cars), the top shops and restaurants and the loveliest areas to visit. The stunning photos by the internationally known photographer will have you walking and dancing in the streets of Havana before you’ve even booked a ticket.

Author : Heidi Hollinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988002923

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300 Reasons to Love Havana by Heidi Hollinger Pdf

Author : Heidi Härkönen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137580764

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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba by Heidi Härkönen Pdf

Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life cycle from birth to death.

Author : Heidi Hollinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Havana (Cuba)
ISBN : 2761947460

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300 raisons d'aimer La Havane by Heidi Hollinger Pdf

Heidi Hollinger vous fera découvrir le vendeur de cacahuètes qui tend sa cueillette dans un cône de papier blanc en chantant " mani ", les femmes cubaines drapées de toutes les couleurs à l'entrée de leur maison et les enfants qui jouent au soccer pieds nus sur les places. Grâce à son oeil de lynx, elle a su capter la beauté exceptionnelle de l'architecture baroque et coloniale espagnole qui raconte 400 ans d'histoire, la musique cubaine si entraînante, la nouvelle gastronomie du pays, les terrasses sur les toits, l'excitation de se promener en almendron, les meilleures adresses et les plus beaux endroits. Vous marcherez et danserez dans les rues de La Havane avant même d'y mettre les pieds grâce aux magnifiques photos de l'auteur, photographe de renommée internationale.

Author : Serena Burdick
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488073908

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Find Me in Havana by Serena Burdick Pdf

From the bestselling author of THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES, a new historical novel based on the dazzling story of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated Hispanic actresses and her daughter’s search for closure. “Told in a series of letters, FIND ME IN HAVANA is a beautiful and heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters, and the American Dream that comes with the biggest price of all. I couldn’t put it down!” — Heather Webb, USA Today bestselling author Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration—from Havana to New York’s Copacabana and then Hollywood—becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film. Thirty years later, her young adult daughter, Nina, is blindsided by her mother’s mysterious death. Seeking answers, the grieving Nina navigates the troubling, opulent memories of their life together and discovers how much Estelita sacrificed to live the American dream on her own terms. Based on true events and exclusive interviews with Nina Lopez, Estelita’s daughter, Find Me in Havana weaves two unforgettable voices into one extraordinary story that explores the unbreakable bond between mother and child, and the ever-changing landscape of self-discovery.

Author : Alejandro G. Alonso,Pedro Contreras,Martino Fagiuoli
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393732320

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Havana Deco by Alejandro G. Alonso,Pedro Contreras,Martino Fagiuoli Pdf

An unparalleled tour of the Art Deco-style architecture, interiors, decoration, and art objects of Havana, this colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own.

Author : Alan Gratz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545880879

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Refugee by Alan Gratz Pdf

The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.

Author : Chanel Cleeton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399586699

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Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton Pdf

A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK “A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice.”—Reese Witherspoon After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity—and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest—until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary... Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.

Author : Alina Fernandez
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031224293X

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Castro's Daughter by Alina Fernandez Pdf

"Mommy, mommy, call him. Tell him to come here right away. I have so many things to tell him!" I had a ton of things to tell him. I wanted him to find a solution to all the shortages of: clothes; of meat, so it would again be distributed through the ration books. I also wanted to ask him to give our Christmas back. And to come live with us. I wanted to let him know how much we really needed him... Fidel didn't answer my letter. I kept writing him letters from a sweet and well-behaved child, a brave but sad girl. Letters resembling those of a secret, spurned lover...

Author : Achy Obejas
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936070237

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Havana Noir by Achy Obejas Pdf

“[A] superb collection . . . The 18 stories by current and former residents of Havana are gritty, heartbreaking and capture the city.” —Orlando Sentinel To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical sin city. Habaneros know that this is neither new nor particularly true. In the real Havana—the lawless Havana that never appears in the postcards or tourist guides—the concept of sin has been banished by the urgency of need. And need—aching and hungry—inevitably turns the human heart darker, feral, and criminal. In this Havana, crime, though officially vanquished by revolutionary decree, is both wistfully quotidian and personally vicious. In the stories of Havana Noir, current and former residents of the city—some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others exciting new voices like Yohamna Depestre—uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria. Other authors include: Pablo Medina, Alex Abella, Arturo Arango, Lea Aschkenas, Moisés Asís, Arnaldo Correa, Mabel Cuesta, Michel Encinosa Fú, Mylene Fernández Pintado, Carolina García-Aguilera, Miguel Mejides, Achy Obejas, Oscar F. Ortíz, Ena Lucía Portela, Mariela Varona Roque, and Yoss. “[A] remarkable collection . . . gritty tales of deprivation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.” —The Miami Herald

Author : Leslie Dale Feldman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498541558

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The Political Theory of I Love Lucy by Leslie Dale Feldman Pdf

This book looks at political themes in the classic television show I Love Lucy. The book discusses the culture of the 1950’s in the context of the role of the housewife, social mobility, and the American dream.

Author : Richard Schweid
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807888629

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Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile by Richard Schweid Pdf

Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba today and yesterday, gets behind the wheel and behind the stereotype in this colorful chronicle of cars, buses, and trucks. In his captivating, sometimes gritty, voice, Schweid blends previously untapped historical sources with his personal experiences, spinning a car-centered history of life on the island over the past century. Packard, Studebaker, Edsel, De Soto: cars long extinct in the United States can be seen at work every day on Cuba's streets. Havana and Santiago de Cuba today are home to some 60,000 North American cars, all dating back to at least 1959, the year the Cuban Revolution prevailed. Though hardly a new part has arrived in Cuba since 1960, the cars are still on the road, held together with mechanical ingenuity and willpower. Visiting car mechanics, tracking down records in dusty archives, and talking with car-crazy Cubans of all types, Schweid juxtaposes historic moments (Fidel Castro riding to the Bay of Pigs in an Oldsmobile) with the quotidian (a weary mother's two-cent bus ride home after a long day) and composes a rich, engaging picture of the Cuban people and their history. The narrative is complemented by fifty-two historic black-and-white photographs and eight color photographs by contemporary Cuban photographer Adalberto Roque.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0435293508

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Our man in Havana by Graham Greene Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Jewish veterans
ISBN : WISC:89077233336

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The Jewish Veteran by Anonim Pdf

Author : Conner Gorry,Gabriel Solomons
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783203185

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Havana Street Style by Conner Gorry,Gabriel Solomons Pdf

When it comes to fashion, few metropolitan areas are more synonymous with style than New York, London, Paris and Milan. But the couture capitals of tomorrow may be located in less likely locales. Addressing the interplay between the development of fashion centres across the world and their relationship to consumption and street style in both local and global contexts, the books in the Street Style series aim to record emerging fashion capitals and their relationship to the physical landscapes of the street. By examining how particular ecologies of fashion are connected to the formation of gender, class and generational identities, this series establishes a new methodology for recording and understanding identity and its connection to style. Havana Street Style is the first book that explores and reveals the relationship between culture, city and street fashion in Cuba’s capital. Matching visual ethnography with critical analysis, the book documents a unique street style few in the United States have yet experienced.