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Cecilia Valdés, de Cirilo Villaverde, es la novela cubana más importante del siglo XIX. Su título completo es Cecilia Valdés o La Loma del Ángel y se publicó en Nueva York en el año 1882. Pertenece al movimiento romántico, aunque no está exenta de pinceladas realistas y costumbristas. La novela se estructura en cuatro partes, que abarcan el periodo histórico comprendido entre 1812 y 1831.
El propósito de Villaverde, como él mismo declara,...
11) Chico & Rita
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Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and desire unite them as they chase their dreams and each other from Havana to New York to Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. Bonus features include the U.S. trailer, the making of Chico & Rita, and audio commentary with Director Fernando Trueba.
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This extraordinary ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country best by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales, tales told contrapuntally in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and...
16) Mascaras
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En la tupida arboleda del Bosque de La Habana aparece un 6 de agosto, día en que la Iglesia celebra la transfiguración de Jesús, el cuerpo de un travesti con el lazo de seda roja de la muerte aún al cuello. Para mayor zozobra del Conde, aquella mujer "sin los beneficios de la naturaleza", vestida de rojo, resulta ser Alexis Arayán, hijo de un respetado diplomático del régimen cubano. La investigación se inicia con la visita del Conde al impresionante...
18) Havana gold
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
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