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Title: Cuba and the Night : A Novel by Pico Iyer ISBN: 0-679-76075-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Neither here nor there
Comment: I was not sure if the main theme of the book was romance or life in Cuba. It is fine to try to have a romance set in Cuba or telling the story of life in Cuba through a love story but in the end, it felt neither here nor there. I have not been to Cuba and so I can't comment on the authencity of the author's description of the country. As for the love story, I was not entirely sure what Richard and Lourdes saw in each other to fall in love. Their so-called love felt a little superficial and unconvincing. Richard always seemed impatient to have sex with Lourdes. He just appeared to me as someone not sure about what he wants and afraid to confront what he wants. In comparison, Lourdes was pretty single-minded about what she wanted. The ending was up to anybody's interpretation, was it a sad story or not? Maybe the tragedy was about Lourdes' hope that love could overcome any obstacles and Richard's skepticism about love and trust, just disillusion and regret in the end.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bravo Mr. Iyer!
Comment: I read this book many years ago when Cuba wasn't so much in the news and I must say that I have only the fondest memories of reading this passion packed novel. I felt every emotion whether happy or sad that the protagonists felt. It is a wonderful book that provides an accurate not exaggerated insight of how Cubans really live in Castro's Cuba. If you love the Cuban culture, its music and people, I recommend you read this novel. It will transport you to la Habana in seconds and it may even help you better understand the very sad and depressing Cuban phlight.
Rating: 4
Summary: A gray, dreary read of a Terrifically Vibrant Country
Comment: This book reads like one of those foriegn 'art' films where you follow people agonizing through everyday life but nothing much ever happens - you wait for hours for a flat, non-ending. Oh well, you got through it. Protagonist Richard is an adrenaline junkie global news photographer, who seems to feel deeply but never really gets past his hornmones or intellectualizing everything, including his 'love affair' with Lourdes. He is actually a very shallow person (sort of like an unfunny Seinfeld character - there is no humor in the book). It is a credit to Pico Iyer's talent that I could read this entire book and still think the trip was worth it, sort of. Nihilistic, full of angst and dreary images of life in Cuba of the early '90s.
What haunts me is the real implication of what the USA's 40-y embargo has wraught on the citizens of Cuba. Very Sad.
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Title: Falling Off the Map : Some Lonely Places of The World by Pico Iyer ISBN: 0679746129 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba by Tom Miller ISBN: 0465086780 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Video Night in Kathmandu : And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer ISBN: 0679722165 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 18 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Abandon : A Romance by Pico Iyer ISBN: 037541505X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Six Days in Havana by James A. Michener, John Kings ISBN: 0292776292 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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