Product Details

• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

Customer Reviews

A fascinating book about love in (and for) Havana!
A truly facinating book! It is two love stories at the same time. One is the main character's (Cuca's) love for the first man she ever kissed. This love story goes on from their first meeting in the late 1950s to their last meeting in the mid-1990s. The second is the author's love for Havana, and her disappointment in the Castro regime. This love story develops from a colourful picture of the open and international Havana of the 1950s into a depressingly accurate description of today's isolated communist Havana, where food, clothes and other essentials are luxury goods available only for the newly rich (whether party elite or people working in the dollar economy). Both these themes are comunicated in a beautiful, quick, and direct language that makes the reader feel present in Havana. You can actually smell the dirt, hear the ocean, breathe the air and feel the music. I'd certainly recommend it to all, especially if you either love Cuba or the Latin American style of writing - or both!