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1950s Havana
Havana · 1950–1959 · exact time + place
The colorful yet tense Havana before the revolution — known for jazz, nightlife, and mobster tales featured in numerous novels and movies. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Havana and the 1950s already set.
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Browse 2 books and 4 movies set in Havana.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
In pre-revolution Cuba Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter Javier who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she…
The Lost City
In Havana Cuba in the late 1950's a wealthy family one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro.…
Havana
An American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana he meets Roberta Duran the wife of a revolutionary Arturo. Shortly after their arrival Arturo is taken away…
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that…
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
In 1959 a young journalist ventures to Havana Cuba to meet his idol the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
Homo Faber
Walter Faber is an emotionally detached engineer forced by a string of coincidences to embark on a journey through his past.
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