The Maids of Havana

The Maids of Havana
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-13 : 9781467005081
ISBN-10 : 1467005088
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Book Synopsis The Maids of Havana by : Pedro Pérez Sarduy

Download or read book The Maids of Havana written by Pedro Pérez Sarduy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 55 314 Escritor/Periodista 2 1 385 12.0 Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami A history full circle?


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