Books from Cuba
72 popular cuban books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around North America Challenge" were written by authors from Cuba.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens--praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor--kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels. That's where our hero comes ... continue
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Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
14 "BEST OF DECEMBER 2018" Lists Including Entertainment Weekly, BBC.com, New York Magazine / Vulture, Bustle, The Millions, Crimereads / LitHub, Book Riot, Asymptote Journal, Vol. 1 Brooklyn , Bust, Pop Sugar and Words Without Borders A novel of glamour, surveillance, and corruption in contemporary Cuba, from an internationally bestselling author--who has never before been translated into English Cleo, scion of a once-prominent Cuban family and a promising young writer in her own right, travels to Spain to collect a prestigious award. There, Cuban expats view her with suspicion--assuming she'... continue
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Sab by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power, race, gender and class in colonial societies, colonial and post-colonial subjectivity and identities, feminist appropriations of the abolitionist agenda, human rights discourse, and literary and philosophical issues associated with enlightenment thought. This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Span... continue
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Salomé by Elaine Vilar Madruga ES
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
En un futuro en el que los humanos cazan criaturas invaluables en planetas desconocidos, una de ellas cae en manos de las más altas jerarquías del imperio galáctico y es la razón de motines y desconfianza. El poder político se ve desestabilizado al nacer dentro de los gobernantes un hambriento deseo, despierto por este ser del espacio exterior, cuyo destino recuerda a las primeras historias de la humanidad. Esta novela obtuvo el Premio Calendario 2013 y el Premio Agustín Rojas de la Crítica a la mejor novela de ciencia ficción publicada en Cuba el mismo año.
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Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore by Italo Calvino IT
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
È un romanzo sul piacere di leggere romanzi nel quale il protagonista è il lettore, che per dieci volte comincia a leggere un libro che per vicissitudini estranee alla sua volontà non riesce a finire. Italo Calvino ha dovuto dunque scrivere l'inizio di dieci romanzi d'autori immaginari, tutti in qualche modo diversi da lui e diversi tra loro.
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Simone by Eduardo Lalo, Elsa Noya ES
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
"Dos escrituras se entrecruzan en las calles de San Juan, la capital puertorriqueña. Un escritor anota en un cuaderno el frágil contenido de sus días de supervivencia, mientras recibe anónimos que no sabe si son mensajes, citas u obras de arte. Desde estos extremos se narra en esta novela lo que no se sabe si es persecución o búsqueda y que al final resultará en un amor truncado y conmovedor." --Back cover.
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Simone : A Novel by Eduardo Lalo EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
A disillusioned writer in San Juan finds himself stalked by a Chinese immigrant student, and as the two realize that they share a similar plight, they move towards bitter-sweet collaborations in passion, grief, literature, and art.
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The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original." The book was nominated for a National Book Award, and reviewers everywhere praised it for the richness of its prose, the vivid drama of the narrative, and the dazzling illumination it brought to bear on the intricacies of family life in general and the Cuban American family in particular. Now, with The Agüero Sisters, García gives us her widely anticipated new novel. Large, vibrant, resonant with image and emotion, it tells a mesmerizi... continue
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The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
THE ATHENIAN MURDERS is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined riddles. In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher suspects that this wasn't an accident and asks Herakles, known as the 'Decipherer of Enigmas', to investigate the death and ultimately a dark, irrational and subversive cult. The second plot unfolds in parallel through the footnotes of the translator of the text. As he proceeds with his work, he becomes increasingly convinced that the original author has hidden a ... continue