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Midnight Rumba
Author: Eduardo Santiago

Midnight Rumba takes you to Cuba before the revolution and spans the years 1940 to 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power. The novel features six main characters, and takes you to Havana, where most of the action takes place, and also Madrid, Paris and Mexico City. — For more than a century, the island nation has fascinated Americans and tempted o... more »ur politicians and our businesses. What is it about this place that still inspires the imagination? Midnight Rumba weaves together fact and fiction to tell the stories of average Cubans trying to live their lives in the midst of escalating turmoil. The characters anticipate bright futures, but what happens when they are all dreaming of and striving for radically different futures?

Midnight Rumba centers on Estelita de la Cruz, a young girl seeking to find her voice and her way in late ’50s Havana. She is Cuba personified, such beauty, such potential, such hope, and yet, so many obstacles stand in her way, so many potential wrong turns. Which way to go?

But Mr. Santiago doesn’t stop there, he gives the reader a lively supporting cast of fully formed characters, all people who have a stake in the new Cuba and are making their own gambles to get there – Delfino, the haberdasher in love with a revolutionary; Aspirrina, a peasant whose improbable goal is to become the Cuban Isadora Duncan; Sor Maria, who eschews her aristocratic background only to discover that her convent can’t hide her from the world; Esteban de la Cruz, a romantic rumba singer fallen into dissolution and desperate for redemption; Juan Carlos Talente, an orphan in Havana who believes he’s found the golden ticket out of poverty and into power. They weave in an out of each other's lives and their stories intertwine with the movers and shakers of the era -- Meyer Lansky, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro, and even the masked Mexican wrestling legend, Santos.

Midnight Rumba also rips a page out of history to offer readers keen and unique insight into the decisions currently facing everyday people in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other societies wrestling with their futures. How do you choose between gangsters, crooks, corrupt politicians and wild-eyed revolutionaries? How do you tear down a broken society in order to build a better one? Can you ever know for sure which decision is right?

Or do you just keep singing, just keep dancing, just keep praying and hope for a better world?

ISBN-13: 9781482753745
ISBN-10: 148275374X
Publication Date: 4/15/2013
Pages: 426
Edition: 1
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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Type: Paperback
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Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical
Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> Caribbean & Latin American

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