A Little Book of Havana

Forty Reflections on Harbour, Revolution, Rhythm and Resilience

von Raúl Morales

90 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Havana faces a narrow harbour and an open strait, its arcades, fortresses and seawall carrying five centuries of ambition, rupture and salt. Beyond the familiar cars and faded facades lies a city shaped by empire, slavery, independence, revolution, migration and the exacting intelligence of daily repair.

A Little Book of Havana enters the Cuban capital through forty concise, researched reflections. Walk from Plaza de Armas, the cathedral and Plaza Vieja to Vedado, El Capitolio and the Malecón; look across the harbour toward El Morro and La Cabaña; and listen for rumba, son, Afro-Cuban jazz, baseball arguments and the remembered voice of the cigar-factory lector. Along the way, the book considers Indigenous ground, treasure fleets, cabildos, Martí, the Maine, the Revolution, literacy, rationing, Mariel, the Special Period, shared taxis and the difficult work of restoring a city that is still lived in.

Written for travellers, readers and lovers of layered cities, this is not a conventional guidebook but an intimate literary portrait of Havana: a place where memory remains inhabited and survival has become a demanding form of invention.

• ISBN: 9798175190657
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp