by Pico Iyer · Alfred A. Knopf Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780679440529
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«Cuba and the Night» is Pico Iyer's novel of fiction, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995 in hardcover (233 pages, in English).
Richard, an American photographer at an emotional dead end, travels to Havana for a report on love for sale. There he meets Lourdes, a young Cuban woman, and amid blackouts and secrets a relationship marked by eroticism and frustration emerges. The novel portrays a melancholy and vibrant Cuba, with love and identity as its axes.
Cuba and the Night is Pico Iyer's first novel, a British writer of Indian origin and author of travel chronicles such as Video Night in Kathmandu.
For readers of literary fiction and travel writing interested in Cuba of the nineties.
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer, is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. He has been a contributor to Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.
