Adios Havana

Author : Andrew J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Outskirts Press, Inc.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781598000481

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Adios, Havana by Andrew J. Rodriguez Pdf

Havana . . . lilting rumbas, caf con leche, sultry sea breezes. Sparkling white beaches by day, scintillating nightclubs after dark. This sophisticated, international capital was the crown jewel of an island paradise-until the idealism that fed the Cuban Revolution yielded a nightmare of soul-crushing dictatorship. Adios, Havana is a true account of romance and peril, adventure and patriotism. Fueled by love-love of family, of country, and of each other-a young couple must face the most wrenching of choices: remain in the country they cherish, lose the wealth and position their families strove for generations to attain, and watch their children grow up impoverished under a terrifying regime; or risk escaping with no money or possessions and leave behind all they have ever known to begin a new life in a strange land. A legacy to future generations, this memoir is intended to remind readers of the fragility of freedom . . . to describe the disintegration of a prosperous civilized society and offer counsel on how to prevent a similar catastrophe from happening in America . . . and to show how and why penniless refugees flourish in the land of the free-why anyone who resists oppression would be driven to tell his beloved homeland, Adios.

Author : Edie Colon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442434844

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Good-bye, Havana! Hola, New York! by Edie Colon Pdf

When six-year-old Gabriella hears talk of Castro and revolution in her home in Cuba, she doesn’t understand. Soon the day comes when she and her parents move to a new place called the Bronx. Life isn’t the same. It isn’t warm like Havana. They have something called “snow” and food called “hot dogs” and “macaroni.” What will it take for the Bronx to feel like home? Inspired by the author’s childhood, this story of the immigrant experience for a child is poignant, tender, and true.

Author : Viviana Carballo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743285162

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Havana Salsa by Viviana Carballo Pdf

A collection of autobiographical vignettes by the respected food writer profiles the pre-Castro Havana of her youth, remembers her large and often eccentric family, and shares a series of recipes that she associates with particular family members, from Calabaza fritters and oxtail stew to concellita and rice with chorizo. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Alfredo José Estrada
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250114662

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Havana: Autobiography of a City by Alfredo José Estrada Pdf

Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero. Deeply personal and affecting, Havana is the accessible and complete story of the city for the history buff and armchair traveler alike.

Author : Jobst Welge,Juliane Tauchnitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110762297

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Literary Landscapes of Time by Jobst Welge,Juliane Tauchnitz Pdf

The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distinguished or traversed by different temporalities. The historical and (post)colonial experiences of these areas turns them into especially fertile ground for the exploration of the connections between landscape/geography and historical/temporal palimpsests as well as the specificities of literary form. The contributions are dedicated to individual, yet conceptually interconnected studies of staggered, multiple, non-simultaneous temporalities in modern and contemporary literature. The volume adopts a comparative perspective throughout and intends to foster the dialogue between the study of Latin/American and Caribbean literatures—in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Therefore, the individual essays are not grouped according to geographical or linguistic areas, but follow a trajectory from spatiotemporal constellations of the 19th century to ruined/catastrophic landscapes and the geopoetic inscriptions of time in regions. The essays should appeal to all readers interested in World Literature, Hemispheric Studies as well as temporal approaches to space and geography.

Author : Leonardo Padura,Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 1841955418

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Adiós Hemingway by Leonardo Padura,Leonardo Padura Fuentes Pdf

In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the game to investigate a crime with roots in Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier.

Author : Rufus Clement Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063923554

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Roses and Thistles by Rufus Clement Hopkins Pdf

Author : Daniel Chavarr’a
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781888451160

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Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarr’a Pdf

Alicia, a Havana prostitute, and her Canadian client, Victor King, come up with a get-rich-quick scheme after the death of Victor's boss that Alicia hopes will enable her to change her way of life.

Author : Louis A. Pérez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971085

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Cuban Studies 37 by Louis A. Pérez Pdf

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 37 includes articles on environmental law, economics, African influence in music, irreverent humor in postrevolutionary fiction, international education flow between the United States and Cuba, and poetry, among others. Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®, an award-winning online database of full-text scholarly journals. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.

Author : M.A. Orthofer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231518505

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The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction by M.A. Orthofer Pdf

A user-friendly reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore contemporary fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge Chinese works to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French novels. The book's critical selection of titles defines the arc of a country's literary development. Entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations, cultures, and peoples, while concise biographies sketch the careers of noteworthy authors. Compiled by M. A. Orthofer, an avid book reviewer and the founder of the literary review site the Complete Review, this reference is perfect for readers who wish to expand their reading choices and knowledge of contemporary world fiction. “A bird's-eye view of titles and authors from everywhere―a book overfull with reminders of why we love to read international fiction. Keep it close by.”—Robert Con Davis-Udiano, executive director, World Literature Today “M. A. Orthofer has done more to bring literature in translation to America than perhaps any other individual. [This book] will introduce more new worlds to you than any other book on the market.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University “A relaxed, riverine guide through the main currents of international writing, with sections for more than a hundred countries on six continents.”—Karan Mahajan, Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker

Author : Ana Menéndez
Publisher : Black Cat
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802170842

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Adios, Happy Homeland! by Ana Menéndez Pdf

This critical look at the life of the Cuban writer pulls apart and reassembles the myths that have come to define her culture, blending illusion with reality and exploring themes of art, family, language, superstition, and the overwhelming need to escape--from the island, from memory, from stereotype, and, ultimately, from the self.

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9871210469

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Adiós, Hemingway by Leonardo Padura Pdf

Mario Conde is a retired Havana cop obsessed with Hemingway, so when the skeletal remains of a man killed on Papa's Cuban estate 40 years earlier are unearthed, it's only natural that the police ask Conde to work the case. As the truth of the night of October 3, 1958, slowly reveals itself, Conde must come to terms with his idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway on Cuba's sun-drenched docks from when he was a child tagging along with his grandfather.

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469608747

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To Die in Cuba by Louis A. Pérez Jr. Pdf

For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society. In a study that spans the experiences of enslaved Africans and indentured Chinese in the colony, nationalists of the twentieth-century republic, and emigrants from Cuba to Florida following the 1959 revolution, Perez finds that the act of suicide was loaded with meanings that changed over time. Analyzing the social context of suicide, he argues that in addition to confirming despair, suicide sometimes served as a way to consecrate patriotism, affirm personal agency, or protest injustice. The act was often seen by suicidal persons and their contemporaries as an entirely reasonable response to circumstances of affliction, whether economic, political, or social. Bringing an important historical perspective to the study of suicide, Perez offers a valuable new understanding of the strategies with which vast numbers of people made their way through life--if only to choose to end it. To Die in Cuba ultimately tells as much about Cubans' lives, culture, and society as it does about their self-inflicted deaths.

Author : Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation
Publisher : Tra Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781732297852

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Island in the Light/Isla en la luz by Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation Pdf

Island in the Light / Isla en la luz is a fascinating and insightful compilation that pairs contemporary Cuban visual art and literature by having 30 prominent writers respond to the works of 35 renowned artists. Contemporary Cuban art, literature, and music come together in Island in the Light / Isla en la luz. This bilingual compilation of the work of 35 artists and 30 writers began by selecting artwork by renowned artists and asking prominent writers to create original stories, poems, or essays in response. The result is a thoroughly original and captivating selection of visual arts and literature in dialogue that conveys a sense of the essence and energy of Cuban arts today. Artists represented include Tania Bruguera, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Yoan Capote, Teresita Fernández, Roberto Fabelo, Carlos Garaicoa, and Enrique Martinez Celaya. Among the writers are Wendy Guerra, José Kozer, Jorge Enrique Lage, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Achy Obejas, Leonardo Padura, and Reina María Rodríguez. The works are drawn from the Jorge M. Pérez Art Collection; the majority have been gifted to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), while the others are promised gifts to PAMM. The volume also includes music: Pavel Urkiza composed original scores inspired by several of the selections that readers link to through QR codes. In addition to the short stories, poems, and essays inspired by the artwork, the volume includes commentary and critical essays by Jorge M. Pérez, Carlos Garaicoa, and Wendy Guerra and Leonardo Padura. Proceeds benefit The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation, which will redirect the funds to arts organizations.

Author : Daniel Chavarría
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015060658203

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Adiós muchachos by Daniel Chavarría Pdf

More Cuban noir from Akashic, following the success of "Outcast" by Jose Latour.