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...Pico Iyer's Cuba and the Night [BOOKS, May 8] the novel he was writing when he lost all his notes during the California fires? I remember readaing his commentary [July, 1990] and feeling very sorry for him. I hope this is his novel that truly "arose from the ashes...
...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...
...subtle strengths of this novel that it quietly subverts the note of tropical passion and romance that it initially seems to promise. Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation, and his experience-his worldliness-endows the pages of this book with the reek of authenticity: the novel is dense and pungent with perfect detail. This same worldliness provides the undercurrent of cool reality about people's lives, their impossible dreams and inevitable disappointments, that makes Cuba and the Night the most promising and beguiling of fiction debuts...
...Travel writer andTIME essayist Pico Iyer's first novel portrays a Cuba where, when the sun goes down, principles crumble, loyalties falter and certainties dissolve. The story is of Richard, an American photographer who, over the course of five visits to Cuba starting in 1987, becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and frustrations of the place. Chief among these is a Cuban girl named Lourdes, with whom Richard falls in love, and who is desparate to leave the island. TIME book reviewer William Boyd calls "Cuba and the Night" a "fine, rich and heady first novel...
...agricultural college where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," an inventor moos after suffering a "brain attack" and secretaries sell Amway products by telephone. "As jaunty and straightforward as its title, 'Moo' allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym," saysTIME critic Pico Iyer. "It is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work...