Así en La Habana como en el cielo

Synopsis of Así en La Habana como en el cielo

«Así en La Habana como en el cielo» is the novel by J. J. Armas Marcelo published by Alfaguara in 1998 in paperback (482 pages, in Spanish).

Marcelo Rocha, a Spanish journalist who often travels to Havana, makes contact with the Tribu, a group of Cubans surviving the Castro regime of the Special Period: the engineer Hiram Solar, the writer Tano Sánchez, the dancer Zeida Olivar and the former model Petra Porter. The novel contrasts the outside gaze with life from within, in a choral portrait.

The work belongs to twentieth-century Spanish narrative; it has 482 pages and is written in Spanish.

For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and stories about twentieth-century Cuba.