José Latour Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

It's the 1958 baseball World Series, and more money is at stake than ever. For the first time for as long as anyone could remember the New York Yankees are the underdogs and the bets are just rolling in... A large part of this money is rolling into Cuba - and to one man. Batista may be sitting in the President's palace, but the famous gangster, Meyer Lansky, really runs the place and he is looking to clean up like never before. But meanwhile, five Cubans are planning to do the unthinkable - rob the mob. They know that there will be more money in Lansky's casino on the night of the last game than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes. All they've got to do is to steal it - and live... Thus begins a dark, powerful and warm heist novel that shows OCEANS 11 how they do things Latin-style...

Arici Landa is a dedicated Cuban communist, a talented soldier and an experienced commodity trader. After returning with Cuban forces from their deployment to Angola in 1988, Landa's friend in the Cuban government approaches him with an opportunity to go to Mexico to trade sugar to earn money for the regime that would skirt the US embargo on the communist island nation. Seeing an opportunity to do good for his country, Landa agrees, but even as he racks up success trading and earning hard currency, Landa's part in international trade are not as they seem...

Uno scrittore cubano che vive a L'Avana, scrive in inglese e ambienta quasi tutto un suo romanzo negli Stati Uniti suscita certamente curiosità. Se, inoltre, il libro è candidato negli Usa a un prestigioso premio letterario ed è stato tradotto nelle più disparate lingue, dall'olandese al francese, al giapponese, la curiosità aumenta ancor di più. E Lontano da Cuba è tutto ciò: un giallo che sembra scritto da un nordamericano ma che ha infinite sollecitazioni latine.

Elliot Steil works as a down-and-out school teacher in Havana. Resigned to the tedium of his simple life, Elliot has put any hopes of a better future to one side. But his aspirations are rekindled when he is offered an opportunity by a mysterious visitor who claims to know his late father.

Een Cubaanse leraar wordt zijn land uitgesmokkeld om vermoord te worden; de aanslag mislukt en hij gaat in de Verenigde Staten op zoek naar de ware toedracht.