Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)
by Graham Greene
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Author: Graham GreeneIntroduction: Christopher Hitchens
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN: 0142438006
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: "Everlasting Entertaining Classic"
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was written and published in 1958. Yet when you read it, its as fresh as any of today's novels. It is a brisk easy read. It starts in Havana with a humble vacuum cleaner salesman who gets recruited by a British agent to spy for England. The gentleman doesn't know what to do and makes up fictional agents and fictional military/ political developments in Cuba.
This dark humour slides in great style with Graham Greene using his own experience in having travelled in various nations and having worked as a spy for England himself.
The book's freshness is unique. So many novels from that period of time seem relics of past. But this evergreen everlasting classic is as relevant and funny and entertaining as any spy novel written recently.
Allow Graham Greene to take you through a joy ride in Havana's clubs, bars, dark places and bring you mystery where there is none.
The ending too is quite surprisingly agreeable and delightful.
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