Havana Lunar

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Inspired by 50 years of Cuban noir, from the Cold Tales of Virgillo Pinera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider's testimony of the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery that climaxes in the eye of Hurricane Andrew. A literary crime novel set on the last island of Socialism.

Author Bio

Robert Arellano's parents fled Havana in 1960. He has been working on Havana Lunar since 1992 when, as a student in Brown University's graduate writing program, he visited Cuba on a research fellowship. He has returned ten times, chronicling the Revolution in journalism, essay, and song. He is the author of two novels, Fast Eddie, King of the Bees and Don Dimaio of La Plata.