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Julliard
EAN : 9782260024217
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 312
Size : 130 x 205 mm
God Doesn't Live in Havana

Release date : 18/08/2016
Yasmina Khadra offers us a true ode to music, love, and the irreducible joie de vivre found in the people of Cuba.
At the time when the Castro regime seems to be coming to an end, Juan del Monte Janava, after fifty years, is still singing in the cabarets of Havana. His magnificent voice once electrified the crowds and earned him the nickname “Don Fuego,” but time has taken its course and... At the time when the Castro regime seems to be coming to an end, Juan del Monte Janava, after fifty years, is still singing in the cabarets of Havana. His magnificent voice once electrified the crowds and earned him the nickname “Don Fuego,” but time has taken its course and his fame has faded. In search of a new contract, he lugs his malaise around the streets of the city, where he runs into Mayensi. In spite of their age difference, the attraction he feels for her grows stronger and stronger, and, with her touch, the vitality and passion he thought gone forever are rekindled within him. But alas, the savage beauty seems to harbor a strange mistrust towards men. And even if Don Fuego manages to seduce her, he knows that the moment of perfect happiness can only be a miraculous parenthesis.
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EAN : 9782260024217
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 312
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Julliard