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The Price of Paradise

Susana López Rubio,

Achy Obejas (Translator)

Start date: March 1, 2020

Finish date: May 31, 2020

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May 08, 2020 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it really liked it

Shelves: women, twenty-first-century

I enjoyed my time with this. I noted that this comes almost on the heels of my having read Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. The time period is not quite identical, but discussing the Greene in a group it was noted how that one gave a good feeling about the Havana of the time. The Price of Paradise does this even better.

I knew Havana was a post-war place of glamour and glitz. The author has been a screenwriter and that skill comes through. The book is written in scenes, though I wouldn't quite ...more

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Jan 23, 2021 Tien rated it it was ok

Shelves: mm-21, historical-fiction, spain, kindle, cuba

It was a huge struggle but I finished this book, mostly to meet some challenges' tasks. In retrospective, I should have known that this is probably not going to be something I'd enjoy but thought I'd give it a go anyway. By the time that I felt I really should DNF, I was 3/4 through and thought it'd be such a waste if I didn't finish.

The first half was pretty much of a nothing. I felt that nothing really happened because it took that long to set up both protagonists' backgrounds and then they me ...more

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