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Havana Girl: passion and revolution in nineteen fifties Cuba
Havana Girl passion and revolution in nineteen fifties Cuba Author:Colin Falconer Revolution. Gun-runners. Movie stars. Che Guevara. The Miami Mafia. But all she wanted was a little romance. 1958. Hollywood stars and the mobsters flock to Havana to lie by the casino swimming pools and listen to the boleristas in the nightclubs. But all the music and the money is about to come to a sudden end. Eighteen-year old Magdalena Fuent... more »es still thinks that nothing will change. She is more concerned with winning back her boyfriend who has just announced he is marrying someone else ? the very same afternoon he took her virginity. But as the year draws to a tumultuous end, and Castro?s rebel army tightens its grip on the city, Magdalena is about to grow up fast. She has a lot to learn about love; but as the clock edges towards midnight on New Year?s Eve, she also has to find a way to keep herself and her father alive. As Havana descends into chaos, there?s only one man who?s prepared to help her; and it?s not the man of her dreams.« less