Cuba and the Night: A Novel

by Pico Iyer

Overview

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. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."—Los Angeles Times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679760757
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/16/1996
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes about literature for The New York Review of Books; about travel for the Financial Times; and about global culture and the news for Time, The New York Times, and magazines around the world.

Hometown:

Japan

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England, UK

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Iyer is a gifted raconteur as well as a seasoned traveler, and reading "Cuba and the Night" is a satisfying journey to a memorable destination with an unforgettable companion. -- New York Times

David Haward Bain