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(0)Pablo Medina
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Master storyteller Pablo Medina's The Cigar Roller is a radiant novel recounting the life of Cuban master cigar roller Amadeo Terra. A proud and capricious man, tobacco has been the center of Amadeo's life, the source of his passion. For his considerable talents with the leaves he had been forgiven a great number of sins. An imperious patriarch of enormous appetites, Amadeo now lies in a Florida hospital after a stroke looks back at his previously...
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¿Dónde Está Enterrado Chávez? ¿Por qué le ocultaron al venezolano el diagnóstico real, la evolución de la enfermedad y la muerte del Presidente? Obra en la cual el autor trata de desenredar los hilos acerca de la muerte del ex Primer Mandatario, dónde la mentira, la desinformación y el secretismo de los gobiernos de Venezuela y Cuba fueron construyendo el andamiaje de la Gran Farsa para imponer a un "Caballo de Troya" colombo-cubano en la...
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Pablo Medina's Cubop City Blues fuses raw, passionate language and elegant lyricism to breathe life into a musically-disguised New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and storytellers.
Our guide into Cubop City is the Storyteller, born nearly blind and shrouded in his mother's guilt. He's homeschooled inside his parents' crumbling apartment with a European housekeeper, and educated through Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bible, and One Thousand...
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Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution who pass the time drinking a firewater so intense, all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and after a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, Elena wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting...