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  <title><![CDATA[Cuba and the Night: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. &quot;On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight.&quot;--Los Angeles Times.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 04 23:09:27 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still halfway through, but this book is unfolding like a long, dramatic, sad, nostalgic sigh. (Thats meant to be a positive description...) It reminds me of first-time falling in love, although it is romance of a rather juvenile, sex-enhanced type, though set in the very worldly context of Castr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6981312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Pico Iyer's nonfiction. I guess I don't love his fiction. This book... didn't know what the heck it wanted to be. Was it supposed to be a romance? Plot devices abound. The author seems a bit in love with his vita. But my main issue was that it was, page after page, overly polemical to the det...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2887335">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pico Iyer is not someone I associated with novels dealing with affairs of the human heart, so I was surprised when I came across this in the second-hand bookstore. <br/><br/>His evocation of Havana was effective; his development of characters and attempts to probe their interior lives failed miser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17483506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pico Iyer is a great travel writer--he knows how to capture those liminal moments when you forget what time zone you're in. This book is at it's best when he sticks to creating evocative atmosphere.  The rest of the book--trite, gender-normative plot, weak characters--I could do without.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another in my frequent forays into Cuba via the pages. I really want to go there.]]></body>
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