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Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738282
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738091
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738879
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738893
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
Author : Pamela Ruiz
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781649800046
Crumbling pastel-colored facades line its streets, parked vintage cars evoke times past, live music permeates the air. Welcome to Havana, home to an overwhelming energy. Situated along the Straits of Florida, the capital of Cuba has been through several identities: Spanish colonial settlement, mobster rule in the 1930s, glamour of the 1950s, Cuban revolution and, most recently, a cultural renaissance. Havana’s bold, provocative approach to art, cuisine and entertainment—as well as the eclectic blend of African, French, Spanish and North American influences—including its range of architecture styles from the sixteenth century to the modern day, confer this epic city with a legendary status on par with the world’s greatest cities. While some of the building are in disrepair, the beauty of the baroque, neoclassical and art deco features triumphs. The iconic Copa Room cabaret that hosted Ginger Rogers and Abbott and Costello still stands. The Gran Teatro de la Habana, built in the early twentieth century, is now home to the Cuban National Ballet. Habana Vieja is undergoing a massive restoration to its former glory. Havana could be seen as a work-in-progress, but it is more a testament to its never-ending determination to improve and progress, which might be the allure that attracts so many visitors. So take a seat at an authentic paladar (family-run restaurant) and enjoy the vibrant evolution of Havana.
Author : Brian Haddon
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647839895
Brian Unrolls His Mat is a collection of short stories that includes rewrites of old stories with an attempt to mitigate their sexist content. It also has some new stories, which are again trying to avoid sexism, despite being written by a man.
Author : Moses Purnell Handy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2108 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004960386
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781632863935
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures. Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it is today--from the native Taino to Columbus's landing, from Cuba's status as a U.S. protectorate to Batista's dictatorship and Castro's revolution, from Soviet presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since long before the revolution. Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentier and José Martí, and foreigners, including Graham Greene and Hemingway. He introduces us to Cuban baseball and its highly opinionated fans; the city's music scene, alive with the rhythm of Son; its culinary legacy. Through Mark Kurlansky's multilayered and electrifying portrait, the long-elusive city of Havana comes stirringly to life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UCAL:C2630181
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UOM:39015022388162
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : CUB:U183034522107
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : NWU:35556027636976
Author : Cecelia Elisabeth Burke Lawless
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0813530946
Havana is a city that rarely fails to captivate. But much of the unique beauty and culture of this historic city is rapidly disappearing. As Cuban society finds itself at a crossroads, Havana is more than ever a city on the edge, for although frozen in time as a consequence of Fidel Castro's revolution, it has certainly not been well preserved. Time, climate, and neglect have eroded a rare architectural legacy, making the need to document this heritage even more pressing than ever before. Making Home in Havana is an elegant book of photographs and testimonies, recording, questioning, and evoking the meaning of place -- in particular, the meaning of home. The combination of fine photography and the words of residents of former palaces, humble apartments, and other dwellings offer us an irresistible portrait of Havana that might otherwise be lost forever. Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Cecelia Lawless have made numerous visits to Havana in order to fully understand and convey the essence of what home means to the inhabitants of the dwellings of the El Vedado and Centro Habana neighborhoods. Together, they--and we--explore how a building becomes a home through its human history as well as its architectural features. With some renovation already underway in colonial Havana, they concentrate on largely unexplored and unrecognized sections that continue to fall into ruin. The intimacy of their connection with the buildings and people offers us a rare combination of documentary realism and high art. Buildings and people speak their histories to us in classic humanistic style. Residents of Havana tell their stories of lifelong efforts to turn decay into beauty, while the photographer's evocative pictures enable us to feel exactly what they are talking about -- a creation of time and space called home.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UOM:39015022388477
Author : Alfredo José Estrada
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250114662
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.
