John Gimlette

The city of ugly love

Mark Kurlansky is a splendid guide to this vibrant, crumbling city’s past – of slavery, magic and revolution

  • Havana: A Subtropical Delirium

    Mark Kurlansky

    Bloomsbury, pp. 259

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