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A simple Habana melody (from when the world was good)

a novel

by Oscar Hijuelos

2002 342 pages eng

It is 1947 and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba, from Spain, where he has just recovered from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Nazi occupatio…

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