A Simple Habana Melody
A Novel
Contributors
Foreword by Arturo O’Farrill
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- On Sale
- Feb 11, 2025
- Page Count
- 368 pages
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9781538722206
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The year is 1947. Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life once revolved around music and love, is finally returning home. En route to Habana, Cuba from Spain, he is a shadow of his former self, disillusioned after he was mistakenly sent to a camp during the Nazi occupation of France. In Habana, he escapes his anguish by reminiscing about his happiest moments before the war, when he lived a life of pleasure and excitement—and had a loving, if unrequited romance with Rita Valladares, the alluring singer who inspired Levis’s most famous composition, “Rosas Puras.”
A tender homage to music, art, and a vibrant country at the edge of modernity, A Simple Habana Melody is a virtuoso performance from one of America’s most talented writers.
Includes a reading group guide.
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