The story of the cigar; from those early beginnings in 1492 to the sophisticated Cohibas of today.

Holy Smoke

Humor & Entertainment

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Humor

Faber and Faber

This is the autobiography of G. Cabrera Infante, recognized as one of the most original Latin American writers. He has written novels, stories, critical essays, articles and screenplays and has lectured at universities from Cambridge to Chicago, and grew up in Cuba under the dictator Batista, knew Guevara and Fidel Castro personally and now lives in England as an exile. He is the author of Three Trapped Tigers, Infante's Inferno, Holy Smoke and View of Dawn in the Tropics.

A Twentieth Century Job

Movies

Faber&Faber

Mea Cuba

Biographies & Memoirs

This fascinating book presents a whirling, free-associating history of the cigar, beginning with the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492. Columbus sent Rodrigo de Xeres inland to prospect for gold; he came back with tales of men who think they are chimneys: men who smoke, using a brown tube burning on one end. Here Guillermo Cabrera Infante describes the history of cigars in the Caribbean & the process of making cigars by hand in Cuba; & the history, customs & popularity of cigar-smoking in America & Europe. He also includes poems & passages from literary works that describe cigar smoking by famous authors, such as Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Colette, & John O'Hara. Originally published in 1985.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Diane Pub Co.

Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the U.S. from Cuba. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography--such as the section entitled "Some Revelations," which consists of several blank pages--this novel has been praised as a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centering on the recollections of a man separated from both his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Dalkey Archive Press

Found in an envelope in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's house after his death in 2005, Map Drawn by a Spy is the world-renowned writer's autobiographical account of the last four months he spent in his country. In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attach at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro: imprisonment of homosexuals, silencing of writers, the closing of libraries and newspapers, and the consolidation of power. Both lucid and sincere, Map Drawn by a Spy is a moving portrayal of a fractured society and a writer's struggles to come to terms with his national identity.

Map Drawn by a Spy

History

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Drei traurige Tiger

Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag

TTT: トラのトリオのトラウマトロジー (セルバンテス賞コレクション)

Ryukichi Terao

Gendaikikakushitsu

Three Trapped Tigers (Chinese Edition)

Literary

Sichuan People's Publishing House

Delito Por Bailar El Chachacha (Alfaguara bolsillo)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Ediciones Alfaguara SA, Grupo Santillana

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