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Son of Havana

Luis Tiant,Saul Wisnia
Son of Havana Book PDF

Author : Luis Tiant,Saul Wisnia
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635765427

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Son of Havana by Luis Tiant,Saul Wisnia Pdf

A memoir by the mustachioed baseball pitcher who went playing rocky, trash-ridden fields in Castro’s Cuba to becoming a Boston Red Sox legend. Luis Tiant is one of the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball history. With a barrel-chested physique and a Fu Manchu mustache, Tiant may not have looked like the lean, sculpted aces he usually played against, but nobody was a tougher competitor on the diamond, and few were as successful. There may be no more qualified twentieth-century pitcher not yet enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His big-league dreams came at a price: racism in the Deep South and the Boston suburbs, and nearly fifteen years separated from a family held captive in Castro’s Cuba. But baseball also delivered World Series stardom and a heroic return to his island home after close to a half-century of forced exile. The man whose name—“El Tiante” —became a Fenway Park battle cry has never fully shared his tale in his own words, until now. In Son of Havana, Tiant puts his heart on his sleeve and describes his road from torn-up fields in Havana to the pristine lawns of major league ballparks. Readers will share Tiant’s pride when appeals by a pair of US senators to baseball-fanatic Castro secure freedom for Luis’s parents to fly to Boston and witness the 1975 World Series glory of their child. And readers will join the big-league ballplayers for their spring 2016 exhibition game in Havana, when Tiant—a living link to the earliest, scariest days of the Castro regime—threw out the first pitch.

Havana World Series

José Latour
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Author : José Latour
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555846756

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A “dark, rich, and satisfying” novel of mobsters, baseball, and 1950s Cuba (Entertainment Weekly). It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series—the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves, and the infamous Meyer Lansky’s gambling empire is raking in millions in bets. But rival mob boss Joe Bonnano, working with a team of Cuba’s boldest and most ingenious criminals, plans to hijack Lanksy’s fortune. The heist goes off brilliantly—until Bonnano’s point man is shot dead. As Lansky’s man in the police department investigates the case, he is caught up in a colorful and dangerous world of gangsters, misfits, and double-crosses . . . “A lively, entertaining read.” —Publishers Weekly “The characters are fascinating, the story compelling . . . You couldn’t ask for more.” —Orlando Sentinel “Suspenseful . . . captures the sights, sounds, smells and rhythms of Havana.” —The Miami Herald

Waiting For Snow In Havana

Carlos Eire
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Author : Carlos Eire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471108358

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Waiting For Snow In Havana by Carlos Eire Pdf

A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.

Havana Red

Leonardo Padura
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Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738091

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Havana Red by Leonardo Padura Pdf

A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

Havana Hardball

César Brioso
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Author : César Brioso
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780813059525

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Havana Hardball by César Brioso Pdf

In February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dramatic series win by Almendares against its rival, Habana. As the celebration spread through the streets of Havana and across Cuba, the Brooklyn Dodgers were beginning spring training on the island. One of the Dodgers' minor league players was Jackie Robinson. He was on the verge of making his major-league debut in the United States, an event that would fundamentally change sports--and America. To avoid harassment from the white crowds in Florida during this critical preseason, the Dodgers relocated their spring training to Cuba, where black and white teammates had played side by side since 1900. It was also during this time that Major League Baseball was trying its hardest to bring the "outlaw" Cuban League under the control of organized baseball. As the Cubans fought to stay independent, Robinson worked to earn a roster spot on the Dodgers in the face of discrimination from his future teammates. Havana Hardball captures the excitement of the Cuban League's greatest pennant race and the anticipation of the looming challenge to MLB's color barrier. Illuminating one of the sport's most pivotal seasons, veteran journalist César Brioso brings together a rich mix of worlds as the heyday of Latino baseball converged with one of the most socially meaningful events in U.S. history.

The Duke of Havana

Steve Fainaru,Ray Sanchez
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Author : Steve Fainaru,Ray Sanchez
Publisher : Villard
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780375506697

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The Duke of Havana by Steve Fainaru,Ray Sanchez Pdf

In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.

Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America

H. Fernández L’Hoeste,R. Irwin,J. Poblete
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Author : H. Fernández L’Hoeste,R. Irwin,J. Poblete
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137518002

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Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America by H. Fernández L’Hoeste,R. Irwin,J. Poblete Pdf

This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion.

All the Way to Havana

Margarita Engle
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Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250184566

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All the Way to Havana by Margarita Engle Pdf

So we purr, cara cara, and we glide, taka taka, and we zoom, zoom, ZOOM! Together, a boy and his parents drive to the city of Havana, Cuba, in their old family car. Along the way, they experience the sights and sounds of the streets—neighbors talking, musicians performing, and beautiful, colorful cars putt-putting and bumpety-bumping along. In the end, though, it’s their old car, Cara Cara, that the boy loves best. A joyful celebration of the Cuban people and their resourceful innovation. ALSC Notable Book

Havana

Mark Kurlansky
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Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781632863935

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Havana by Mark Kurlansky Pdf

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.

Havana Bay

Martin Cruz Smith
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Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780345390455

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Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith Pdf

A novel about the murder of a Russian man in Cuba.

Havana Real

Yoani Sanchez
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Author : Yoani Sanchez
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935554912

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Havana Real by Yoani Sanchez Pdf

She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation. Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime: the chronic hunger and the difficulty of shopping; the art of repairing ancient appliances; and the struggles of living under a propaganda machine that pushes deep into public and private life. For these simple acts of truth-telling her life is one of constant threat. But she continues on, refusing to be silenced—a living response to all who have ceased to believe in a future for Cuba.

The Book of Havana

Daniel Chavarria,Irina J. Davidenko,Eduardo del Llano,Ahmel Echevarría Peré,Jorge Enrique Lage, Laidi Fernández de Juan, Eduardo Heras León, Cinthia R. Paredes,Francisco López Sacha ,Eduardo Angel Santiesteban
The Book of Havana Book PDF

Author : Daniel Chavarria,Irina J. Davidenko,Eduardo del Llano,Ahmel Echevarría Peré,Jorge Enrique Lage, Laidi Fernández de Juan, Eduardo Heras León, Cinthia R. Paredes,Francisco López Sacha ,Eduardo Angel Santiesteban
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697045

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The Book of Havana by Daniel Chavarria,Irina J. Davidenko,Eduardo del Llano,Ahmel Echevarría Peré,Jorge Enrique Lage, Laidi Fernández de Juan, Eduardo Heras León, Cinthia R. Paredes,Francisco López Sacha ,Eduardo Angel Santiesteban Pdf

When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics to fully comprehend… On the day of their graduation, a group of students spend the night drinking around the ‘Fountain of Youth’, ironically celebrating the bright future that doesn’t await them… The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana’s citizens have had to endure as a result of their country’s political isolation – from the hardships of the ‘Special Period’, to the pitfalls of Cuba’s schizophrenic currency system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods – from the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs of the Malecón and Vedado – these stories also demonstrate the defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Séamas Carraher.

Havana: Autobiography of a City

Alfredo José Estrada
Havana Autobiography of a City Book PDF

Author : Alfredo José Estrada
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

Havana

Claudia Lightfoot
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Author : Claudia Lightfoot
Publisher : Signal Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1902669320

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Havana by Claudia Lightfoot Pdf

An exploration of Havana's history and its paradoxes: a city where architectural treasures survive among the crumbling tenements; where a vibrant street life takes place amidst shortages; and where revolutionary politics, machismo and a thriving black market co-exist.

Havana Before Castro

Peter Moruzzi
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Author : Peter Moruzzi
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781423609933

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Havana Before Castro by Peter Moruzzi Pdf

Take a trip to the golden age of Havana in this gorgeously illustrated volume of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other ephemera. Featuring hundreds of historic images and cultural artifacts, Havana Before Castro documents how the Cuban capital evolved from a Prohibition Era getaway destination to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday—before the Castro regime took over and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise. In chapters covering such topics as Cuban rum and cigars, the world-famous Tropicana Club, and Havana’s association with the mob, author Peter Moruzzi provides essential historical context for the many fascinating and evocative images.