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CUBAN CONNECTIONS

I just finished

Dancing to Almendra

It is pretty good.

It sits at the nexus of the changeover from gang-ridden Batista to revolutionary Castro Cuba.

The hero starts with great 'star reporter' zeal to uncover the gangland doings and is enmeshed in real life situations that are beyond his power to cope or understand.

Evil. Its nature.

This makes a great crime-read and a great history-read on top of a totally satisfying 'artistic' novel. I guess this is what they mean by literary fiction.

I am prompted to read some other books by the author Mayra Montero.

Oh. Interesting. Montero is a young woman and the hero of this novel is a young man. In the book, a young woman adopts the style of a man.

Interesting.

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