The Maids of Havana |
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| Author:
| Prez Sarduy, Pedro
Pérez Sarduy, Pedro |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4490-7070-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Publisher: | AuthorHouse
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.49 |
Book Description:
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Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami A history full circle?