A Simple Habana Melody: from When the World Was Good
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish date: 06/01/2002
Description:
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 occupation of France. (A devout Catholic, Levis had been mistakenly identified as a Jew because of his name.)When Levis arrives back in Habana, after an absence of many years, his mind is reeling with beautiful memories of his life in Cuba and in Paris before the war, a life of pleasure and excitement that he owes, in part, to an unrequited, nearly "chivalrous" romance with a certain Rita Valladares, a singer for whom Levis had written his most famous song, "Rosas Puras, " or "Pretty Roses." This 1928 composition becomes the most famous rumba in the world and changes both American and European tastes in music and dance -- forever; and it is the song, symbolic of the composer's love for Rita Valladares, that sets Levis's life in Europe in motion.This is at once a love story -- for art, family and country -- as well as a portrait of Habana at the turn of the last century, when "the world was good." "A Simple Habana Melody is a virtuoso performance from one of our most important writers.
Expand description
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
| Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
BookReadingInc
|
Good
|
$12.08
|
|
BookReadingInc
|
Acceptable
|
$12.20
|
|
Once Upon A Time Books
|
Good
|
$1.71
|
|
Cathy's Half Price Books
|
Very Good |
$3.95
|
|
Cup and Chaucer Books
|
Like New
|
$4.08
|
|
Redux Books
|
Very Good
|
$4.08
|
|
HPB-Ruby
|
Very Good
|
$5.47
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
|
Very Good
|
$5.47
|
|
HPB Inc.
|
Very Good
|
$5.47
|
|
Heritage Books
|
Very Good
|
$5.47
|
|
Books End Bookshop
|
Good |
$5.47
|
|
Ergodebooks
|
Good |
$5.70
|
|
Cathy's Half Price Books
|
Very Good |
$6.05
|
|
Sixth Chamber Inc.
|
Very Good
|
$6.14
|
|
Dorothy's Books
|
Very Good |
$8.15
|
|
Bookwitch
|
Like New
|
$8.21
|
|
Vashon Island Books
|
Very Good
|
$8.89
|
|
Montclair Book Center
|
Good
|
$9.56
|
|
Burke's Book Store
|
Very Good
|
$9.57
|
|
Books From California
|
Very Good |
$10.24
|
|
HPB-Movies
|
Very Good
|
$10.92
|
|
HPB-Ruby
|
Very Good
|
$10.92
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
|
Very Good
|
$10.92
|
|
Browse Awhile Books
|
Very Good
|
$10.95
|
|
readmybooks
|
Acceptable |
$12.08
|
|
readmybooks
|
Good |
$12.20
|
|
MostlySignedBooks
|
Very Good
|
$12.25
|
|
About A Book
|
Good
|
$13.68
|
|
Montclair Book Center
|
Good
|
$13.68
|
|
Dunaway Books
|
Good
|
$13.68
|
Please Wait