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"When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's new novel. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel's sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel...
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2019.
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"The spirit of Marisol, who vanished during the Cuban Revolution, visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern-day New Jersey, and her presence prompts him to investigate the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search"--
"Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her tenacious spirit visits her nephew, Ramón, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: that...
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Europa Editions
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2016.
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English
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"The hero of this mordant portrayal of life in contemporary Cuba is a black Cuban whose parents were enthusiastic supporters of the Castro Revolution. His father, however, having fallen foul of the regime, is accused of embezzlement and dies of a stroke. Following her husband's death, his mother flees the country and settles in Madrid. Our hero separates from his wife and now spends much of his time in the company of his Russian neighbor, from whom...
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W. Morrow & Co
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2000.
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English
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In Cuba, Castro has finally relinquished power. . . . now a mysterious exile (Che Guevara?) returns to finish the revolution.
When a strange man appears in rural towns around Cuba quietly advocating a new kind of politics he calls "the True Republic," old-timers begin to suspect that the elderly stranger, who calls himself Ernesto Blanco, may actually be the martyr Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Shortly after Blanco's appearance, Fidel Castro steps down...
5) Havana lost
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Red Herring Press
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[2013]
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English
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On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back...
6) El comandante del pueblo: una novela basada en la vida de Camilo Cienfuegos y su misteriosa muerte
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Español
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"Camilo Cienfuegos fue un carismático revolucionario que se hizo amigo de Fidel Castro cuando empezaron las protestas para derrocar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista. Siempre fiel a los ideales de la Revolución, Cienfuegos luchó al lado de Fidel, Raúl y el Che Guevara, y llegó a ganarse la simpatía del pueblo cubano gracias a su humildad y franqueza. Tras ganar varias batallas, la rivalidad entre Camilo y Fidel se fue acentuando y sus ideales...
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La pasión según Carmela" narra con un realismo impresionante la historia de un médico argentino que se enamora de una médica cubana. Juntos viven en Cuba algunos de los años clave de la revolución de Castro. Poco antes del advenimiento de la democracia en la Argentina, el vuelve; ella, en cambio, queda en Cuba, libre, pero de alguna manera convertida en rehén. La aguda percepción de Marcos Aguinis es el instrumento perfecto para hacernos conocer...
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Tempora
Pub. Date
2021.
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Ukrainian
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Tamara -- medsestra v Kyyivsʹkomu hospitali. Ulitku 1962-ho u skladi radyansʹkoho kontynhentu vona vyrushaye na robotu v «odnu z sotsialistychnykh krayin». Navitʹ kapitan korablya ne znaye finalʹnoho punktu pryznachennya, azh doky sudno ne skerovuyutʹ u tayemnycho-tropichnu y bezsumnivno druzhnyu Kubu. Odnak take pozytyvne uyavlennya vyyavlyayetʹsya omanlyvym, ekzotychnistʹ nepryvitnoyu, a atmosfera peremozhnoyi revolyutsiyi -- ne takoyu...
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Libro de memorias casi secreto e inédito a la muerte del autor, Mapa dibujado por un espía narra los apuros que vivió Guillermo Cabrera Infante en el verano de 1965, cuando regresó a Cuba desde Bélgica para asistir al entierro de su madre. Fue el momento de abrir los ojos a la vertiente totalitaria de la Revolución, cuyas autoridades le negaron la visa de salida, obligándolo a permanecer cuatro meses en la isla hasta encontrar una nueva vía...
11) Cuerpos divinos
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Un apasionante libro de memorias noveladas de Guillermo Cabrera Infante, que recrea toda la efervescencia de su juventud en Cuba. En estas memorias comenzadas nada más exiliarse de Cuba, Guillermo Cabrera Infante describe con lujo de detalles su juventud en la efervescente isla de fines de los años cincuenta y principios de los sesenta. La Habana, el cine, el sexo, la música y la llegada de la Revolución conviven en un relato de fondo gozoso,...
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