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Mariana arrives in Havana and becomes integrated in different environments of the modern city, receives a good education, and participates in the luxurious lifestyle of those living in the gated resort town of Tararà. Her father, a Republican from Spain and an orthodox in Cuba, is a personal friend of famous figures like Eduardo Chibàs Rivas and Raðl Roa. It is her father who educates her with the democratic ideas that do not mesh with the Batista dictatorship. This personal education, along with her formal schooling and later studies in journalism, move Mariana to participate in the 26J Movement's network of secret agents in charge of destroying the vestiges of Batista's government and of taking on life-threatening missions as part of the secret war during the Cuban Revolution. This is the story"narrated in first person"of a bourgeois immigrant turned 26J agent who does not miss a detail of the cruel civil war that took place in Cuba.La historia real de Mariana, una agente secreta del Movimiento 26J, durante la RevoluciÃ3n de Cuba. La Habana, 10 de marzo de 1952, golpe de estado de Batista. Mariana, hija de gallego habanero y criolla, se integra en una red secreta de agentes encargados de destruir el batistato e interviene en peligrosas misiones arriesgando su vida: la guerra secreta durante la revoluciÃ3n cubana. Mariana llega a La Habana e, inmersa en los àmbitos de una ciudad tan avanzada, recibe una buena educaciÃ3n y participa del lujo de quienes se permiten vivir en Tararà. Su padre, republicano en España y ortodoxo en Cuba, es amigo de personajes como Eduardo Chibàs Rivas o Raðl Roa, y la imbuye de ideas democràticas que chocan con la dictadura de Batista. Esto, junto al ambiente de su colegio y de la academia de periodismo a la que asiste, la llevan a participar en el Movimiento 26J. Esta es la historia, narrada en primera persona, de una inmigrante burguesa a la que no se le ha perdido nada en una guerra tan cruel como la que hubo en Cuba.
About the Author: Xavier Alcalà was born in Miguelturra (Ciudad Real) in 1947 and began writing in 1971. His more than one thousand articles and thirty books have earned him numerous formal distinctions, including the PÃ(c)rez LugÃ-n journalism prize, and the PedrÃ3n de Ouro and Manuel MurguÃ-a awards for short stories. His novels of his have received special recognition, among them: Fàbula (Cidade da Coruña and the Spanish Critics prizes), AlÃ(c)n da Desventura (Blanco Amor award), and Nas catacumbas (award of the Galician Critics). His most well-known novel is A nosa cinza, with more than seventy thousand copies sold. He has also seen many of his travel writings published, such as Argentina o Viaxes no paÃ-s de Elal. He is also the author of Habana Flash from Nowtilus Publishing.


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  • ISBN-13: 9788499673554
  • Publisher: Nowtilus
  • Publisher Imprint: Nowtilus
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8499673554
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Series Title: Novela Historica
  • Weight: 594 gr


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