Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books

Cover of La vorágine
by José Eustasio Rivera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

La vorágine (1924) es una novela naturalista que relata la aventura de Arturo Cova, quien en una huida alucinante se interna en Los Llanos orientales, extensa región de ríos caudalosos, donde pierde a Alicia, su amante. El afán de recuperar a Alicia lo llevará a la Amazonia colombiana donde Arturo...
Cover of El ángel de Sodoma
by Alfonso Hernández Catá
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

El ángel de Sodoma fue publicada en 1926 y es considerada la primera gran novela gay de la literatura cubana. Su protagonista descubre sus inclinaciones eróticas en medio de su cerrado ambiente familiar y se debate entre las consecuencias de su condición personal y lo inevitable:«No, no se había...
Cover of Poemas
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Cover of El filibusterismo
by José Rizal y Alonso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (19 de junio de 1861, Calamba-30 de diciembre de 1896, Manila), fue patriota, médico y hombre de letras inspirador del nacionalismo de su país.Rizal era hijo de un próspero propietario de plantaciones azucareras de origen chino. Su madre, Teodora Alonso,...
Cover of Triunfo de Calibán
by Rubén Darío
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Triunfo de Calibán es una antología que recoge algunas de las contradictorias visiones de América que tuvo Darío durante su vida.
Cover of Cartas a María Mantilla
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Las «Cartas a María Mantilla» son una conmovedora serie de epístolas escritas por Martí a la hija de los propietarios de una pensión en Nueva York. Son un texto de referencia en la literatura de Cuba del siglo XIX. María era hija de Carmen Miyares de Mantilla y de su esposo Manuel Mantilla Sorzano. Aunque muchos afirman que en realidad era hija de José Martí.
Cover of Cuentos afrocubanos. Patakines
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Cuentos afrocubanos. Patakines es una antología de relatos. Los patakines son narraciones orales de origen africano, que han sido transcritas al español. Refieren el origen de las deidades de la religion yoruba y relatan además historias de esa cultura que suelen ser interpretados en el marco del...
Cover of El presidio político en Cuba
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

El presidio político en Cuba es un testimonio de las penurias sufridas por Martí durante su estancia en la prisión.
Cover of Cuban Revelations

Cuban Revelations

Behind the Scenes in Havana

by Marc Frank
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in...
Cover of Warrior

Warrior

Frank Sturgis---The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro But Was Ambushed by Watergate

by Jim Hunt, Bob Risch
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

The press called him a "real-life James Bond." Fidel Castro called him "the most dangerous CIA agent." History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, yet the Watergate break-in was his least perilous mission. Frank Sturgis--using more than 30 aliases and code...
Cover of The Havana Habit
by Gustavo Perez Firmat
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez...
Cover of Havana: Autobiography of a City
by Alfredo José Estrada
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr...
Cover of Castro's Daughter

Castro's Daughter

An Exile's Memoir of Cuba

by Alina Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998

"Mommy, mommy, call him. Tell him to come here right away. I have so many things to tell him!" I had a ton of things to tell him. I wanted him to find a solution to all the shortages of clothes; of meat, so it would again be distributed through the ration books. I also wanted...
Cover of Every Man Deserves a Good Jacket
by Crystal Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

If you love a great Jamaican Story, rooted in reality then this book will make you laugh and cry. Not an emotional rollercoaster, just a dose of my reality with a tups of fantasy
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