Havana Dreams: A Story Of Cuba

At the centre of this story about four generations of Cuban women is Naty Revuelta, a socialite during the Batista era, who became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution. The other women whose lives are forever marked by the tie with Castro are Naty's two daughters, one of whom is the illegitimate and unacknowledged child of Castro. Together, their stories - with Wendy Gimbel's own Cuban history - create a book that is part history, part biography and part autobiography. Havana Dreams leaves us with an indelible impression of familial obligation and illicit love; of the heady but doomed romanticism of the revolution; and of the profound consequences of Cuba's history for the ordinary and the most intimate lives of its people.