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The Book of Havana - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)
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The Book of Havana - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Reading the City
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Loot Price R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
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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 Malecon 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 Seamas Carraher.
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