José Latour, een geboren en getogen Havanees, heeft een unieke plaats veroverd met zijn scherpe inzichten in misdaad en sociaal commentaar. Zijn werk, dat zich vaak afspeelt tegen de turbulente achtergrond van postrevolutionair Cuba, duikt in thema's als corruptie en politieke onderdrukking. Beïnvloed door klassieke misdaadromans, kenmerkt Latours stijl zich door boeiende plots en scherp psychologisch inzicht. Zijn geschriften, die moedig ideologische onderdrukking trotseerden, bieden een huiveringwekkende kijk op de menselijke natuur en de zoektocht naar gerechtigheid.
Elliot Steil works as a down-and-out school teacher in Havana. Resigned to the tedium of his simple life, Elliot has put any hopes of a better future to one side. But his aspirations are rekindled when he is offered an opportunity by a mysterious visitor who claims to know his late father.
A moody slice of Cuban noir from the acclaimed author of Outcast: 'A masterful book ... passionate, frightening and extremely violent' Independent on Sunday Years ago, a fleeing Batista supporter reportedly stashed an incredibly valuable collection of diamonds in a Havanan apartment. Now a pair of Americans (posing as Canadians) have come to Cuba to find the jewels on behalf of the man's blind son, who promised them a share of the fortune if they can make it back to New York. Arriving at the apartment, they have to negotiate its present occupants - a mismatched brother and sister: he a Cuban wide boy scraping a living out of selling girls, pornography and drugs to foreigners; she an upright, vulnerable, beautiful woman with a tragic past. (Their father, the hero of the Cuban revolution, is in gaol after shooting his wife's lover.) Add to this is a hitman the Americans unwisely hired to get rid of one of the obstacles in their path, who now wants a piece of the action himself, and the pressure is on to find the diamonds and get out of Havana - before someone else gets their hands on them.
Uno scrittore cubano che vive a L'Avana, scrive in inglese e ambienta quasi tutto un suo romanzo negli Stati Uniti suscita certamente curiosità. Se, inoltre, il libro è candidato negli Usa a un prestigioso premio letterario ed è stato tradotto nelle più disparate lingue, dall'olandese al francese, al giapponese, la curiosità aumenta ancor di più. E Lontano da Cuba è tutto ciò: un giallo che sembra scritto da un nordamericano ma che ha infinite sollecitazioni latine.
Ein nach Miami geflüchteter Kubaner deckt ein Komplott auf, bei dem er um seine Erbschaft betrogen werden soll.
Arici Landa is a dedicated Cuban communist, a talented soldier and an experienced commodity trader. After returning with Cuban forces from their deployment to Angola in 1988, Landa's friend in the Cuban government approaches him with an opportunity to go to Mexico to trade sugar to earn money for the regime that would skirt the US embargo on the communist island nation. Seeing an opportunity to do good for his country, Landa agrees, but even as he racks up success trading and earning hard currency, Landa's part in international trade are not as they seem...