Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba

Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba

by WendyGimbel (Author)

Synopsis

A fascinating, powerfully evocative account of four generations of Cuban women: Naty Revuelta, born in 1925, a socialite during the Batista era, who became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution; Naty's mother, an unregenerate reactionary, and Naty's two daughters, one of whom is the illegitimate and unacknowledged child of Castro. Each of the women's lives is shaped by a part of the island's terrible and poignant contemporary history, and together they weave a tapestry - at once intimate and revelatory - of Cuba in our century.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Virago
Published: 07 Oct 1999

ISBN 10: 1860494625
ISBN 13: 9781860494628
Book Overview: * Review round-ups

Media Reviews
A haunting WILD SWANS-type inter-weaving of four female generations in revolution-riven Cuba. An elegiac portrait of a fairy-tale island * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
HAVANA DREAMS is a different sort of Cuban tale. An entertaining and enlightening book * SUNDAY TIMES *
This is a remarkable book about love, disillusionment and exile, a tale which in its own simple way tells as much about Cuba as any political treatise or weighty economic analysis * FINANCIAL TIMES *
An elegaic portrait of a fairy tale island, evoked through the lives of the women Castro rejected. MAIL ON SUNDAY
A book about passions - for love, memory and the ever-shifting pageantry of life and history that is Cuba * Oscar Hijuelos *
A shimmering book * New York Times Book Review *
Author Bio
Wendy Gimbel has written for VOGUE, the NEW YORK TIMES and the NATION and had a book published on Edith Wharton. She lives in New York.