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Pocas naciones insulares han conmovido tanto como Cuba. Desde la embriagadora Habana de Hemingway hasta el Buena Vista Social Club de Ry Cooder, Cuba ha fascinado persistentemente a sus visitantes por su música (del jazz a la rumba), su rica literatura, su arte y danza y quizás, sobre todo, por su audaz experimento de una revolución socialista.
Antoni Kapcia muestra cómo el deshielo en las relaciones entre Cuba y EE. UU. exige ahora una nueva...
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With a 1958 portable typewriter in his suitcase, the writer wanders Havana's crumbling back alleys, bullet-sprayed museums, and grand hotels where the relics of the Revolution and the ghost of Hemingway still speak loudly.
Whether getting grifted while watching a dubiously-billed piano player from the Buena Vista Social Club, dodging grifters and conmen, or wandering amongst over a million marble graves, The Havana Papers offers a rare glimpse...
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Losing his successful law firm and marriage to pride and alcohol, litigator Michael Seeley slowly recovers his reputation only to risk everything by accepting a case from an aging musician who with six other composers seeks to reclaim copyrights to culturally significant Cuban songs.
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"Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were being made, a do-it-yourself culture of cool cats, outsiders, and oddballs populated the old downtown neighborhoods of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine. Ordinary working folks rubbed elbows with petty criminals, grifters, and all sorts of women...
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