Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several paintings by local artist Blondel Joseph, who was born in northern Haiti, were on display in the Lyman Common Room at Agassiz House, along with other paintings, including depictions of the refugee camps at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
...support of an acquaintance, a dull young English schoolteacher named Hugo, in a marriage of convenience. How the plans go awry and what consequences await the sultry Lourdes in provincial England provide one of the novel's darker, not to say drizzlier, ironies. As another character remarks, "In Cuba, you believe everything or you believe nothing. Because everything is crazy ... Nothing makes sense in Cuba." Under these circumstances Richard should have realized that nothing was going to go as he envisioned...
...title of Pico Iyer's fine, rich and heady first novel, Cuba and the Night (Knopf; 234 pages; $22), comes from a line of poetry written by Josa Mart?: "Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche" (Two fatherlands have I: Cuba and the night). The implication being, and it is one the novel endorses, that when the sun goes down, principles crumble away, loyalties falter, certainties dissolve. The dichotomy and the dilemma are all the stronger, one imagines, if you are not a Cuban. Iyer, who occasionally writes essays for Time, conjures up Cuba as a kind of permanent...
...romantic in question, and the narrator of this novel, is an American photographer named Richard. In the course of the few years covered in the novel's scope, starting in 1987, he makes five visits to Cuba, and in each one he becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and particular frustrations of the place, not least because he has fallen in love with a Cuban girl called Lourdes...
...address, titled "The Realities of Cuba Today," Mas Canosa condemned the proposed "180 degree change in policy" of the United States, saying that the current embargo is "the only language that Castro understands...