Slow, slightly downhill, one step at a time. You’re winding down on two hours embedded at the Gran Hotel Shop, two blocks from Parque Centrale offers all makes of Cuban cigars īeaches for swimming in Old Havana. Havana Lunar is perfect.The legal fight for rights to Havana Club brand continueĪ Ron Collins (rum) cocktail may be a throw-back to your ancestors 1950’s parties, but it is still mixed and served in Havana. The writing is hypnotic, the storytelling superb. Mano Rodriguez is caught up in intrigue in this thoughtful, lushly detailed neo-noir." - Publishers Weekly "A sad, surreal, beautiful tour of the hell that was Cuba in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. "In the weeks before Hurricane Andrew sweeps down on Cuba in 1992, Dr. But when the pimp and his bodyguards come after Julia and Mano, the violent chain reaction plunges them all into the decadent catacombs of Havana's criminal underworld.
She takes refuge in his clinic to break away from the abusive chulo who prostituted her, and they form an unlikely allegiance that Mano thinks might save him from his twin burdens: the dead-end hospital assignment he was delegated after being blacklisted by the Cuban Communist Party, and a Palo Monte curse on his love life commissioned by a vengeful ex-wife. One hungry, hallucinatory night in the dark heart of Havana, Mano Rodriguez, a young doctor with the revolutionary medical service, comes to the aid of a teenage jinetera named Julia. Summary: Edgar Award finalist: A "hypnotic" crime novel set in Cuba after the collapse of the USSR (Tim McLoughlin, author of Heart of the Old Country ).
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