Things look grim and everything in unstable. Imagine being forced to leave your homeland, your life and everything you’ve ever known because of a despot named Batista?Ĭhe Guavara and Fidel Castro are calling their followers to bear arms and take over political control. We learn of the two sides of the revolution from the rich Perez family who own a sugar plantation and are forced to flee as revolution comes to the island. It’s a love story between people and between exiled Cubans and their homeland and it’s a very emotional read. This is not a novel of politics although much is explained. How I wish I’d had this book then as it transports you heart and soul to the island at the revolution. BookTrail Travel to the locations in Next Year in HavanaīookTrail Travel to the locations in Next Year in studied Spanish and the Cuban revolution at university. Then the story takes us to 2017 and the consequences of what happened back then…. A certain Che Guevara and Fidel Castro are plotting…. It may be the final months of Batista’s rule but already revolution is bubbling away and ready to explode. For the people of Cuba are in the grips of a despot. Life here is not easy despite the wealth that sugar and rum have brought to the island. This Book set in Cuba – Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton is a story of a wealthy sugar owning families on the island of Cuba in the late 1950s. A novel from which the aroma of the sugar plantations can be tasted of every page.
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