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in Cuba with very interesting characterization, it brought out the best and the worst of a failing economy where normal citizens are so deprived that they resort to every imaginable scam possible to find a buck.
Alongside that is the story of a rather naive woman, trying to find the young lover of a friend of hers to give him

a legacy that has been bequeathed to him.


It was a conflicting story and at times the numerous characters confused me as to what their role in the story was, and how it was going to end.
Two women one is Lorraine seeking the elusive Amado and then there is Mathilde a journalist looking at the Cuban revolution through an exiled American, a former Black Panther.


Since my knowledge of the Cuban Revolution was scant, and even less knowledgeable about the role of America in the whole scenario, I found the historical snippets very good reading and enjoyed this.
The complications brought about the sordidness of poverty and trying to rook everyone who came within their sphere, left me feeling a bit dismayed, but that is hard core facts which cannot be denied and cannot be sugar coated.
When life gets tough, you've just got to survive and this is one way of doing so,

I was still left dissatisfied at the end of the story as its pretty open ended but I did read it right to the end! This is about two women in Havana.
Mathilde, a Frenchwoman in her late twenties, is there to interview and old revolutionary, and Lorraine, a middleaged Canadian widow, is in Cuba in search of an old friends lover to settle said old friends will.
They meet different people in Havana, as well as each other, and their stories become intermingled, Theres the relationship between Mathilde and Adamaris, a young Cuban woman trying to get money Mathilde and Bailey, the revolutionary shes interviewing Lorraine and Almado, the young man shes searching for and Lorraine and Hugo, who decides to help Lorraine in her mission.


The tone of the book is very descriptive, sexual and sensual, a style I dont particularly like usually, but it worked here, creating an atmosphere that carried the story very well.
Maybe it was partly because I was in the Caribbean while I read that, and visited Nassau, so I felt close to the feeling of an old tropical Caribbean city.


I also liked the open ending, Theres a mystery throughout the book, regarding Lorraines quest, and the reader has ample time to make up his own idea about what happened.
The fact that we never get an answerand neither do the charactersallows us to keep our idea, and not be disappointed one way or another.


I had a bit of trouble with Lorraines panic attacks and agoraphobia though, They just randomly appeared in the beginning of the novel, without any reference to her having suffered any before in her life that doesnt seem very realistic to me, that all of a sudden in her fifties she starts being agoraphobic, especially given what we learn about the reason for these panic attacks in the end.
Seems to me there should have been more context, Same with her religious beliefs, they seemed to appear when it was convenient, they never felt like a large part of her, as a character.


All in all, an enjoyable read especially on a cruise ship under the hot Caribbean sun! Cuba's dazzling sun casts the darkest shadows.
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A Private House, Anthony Hyde's brilliant new novel, takes us into the lives of two very different women and to one of the most remarkable cities in the worldHavana, in the twilight of the Castro regime.
Lorraine has come there to honour the dying wish of an old friend, Mathilde, a French journalist, is writing about the end of the revolution as seen through the eyes of Bailey, a Black Panther and plane hijacker, an exile from the States and from the sixties.


The two women don't have much in commonor so it seems,

But in a single week, they find their lives running parallel and then twisting together as the action takes them from the narrow passages of the Old City, dark with poverty and the mysteries of santeria, into the leafy streets of Vedado and the sea breezes along the Malecón.
Caught up in this decaying world, the women step into history but also into themselves, making private,