The novel was published at the end of 1958, and much of the city it describes remains intact.
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Alec Guinness shooting Our Man in Havana (Peter Stackpole. 1959)
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The long, nuclear-armed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace – which inspired some brilliant literature
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Graham Greene: Our man in Havana. Penguin Books 1962. Cover art by Paul Hogarth.
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It’s only when I re-read Our Man in Havana that I realized I shared a street with the hapless spy hero of Graham Greene’s novel. My own office was in a grand trading exchange in the old city that d…
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Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy was my first brush with the notion that writers were spies. At nine I was Harriet, furiously scribbling in my notebook as I peered under gates and through knot-holed fences in my neighborhood. I spied on my family too. Great fun, until my intelligence activities were discovered. Writers are natural…
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Our Man in Havana
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OUR MAN IN HAVANA Checkers game with liquor miniatures !
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Daiquiri . . . The Daiquiri was invented in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Instead of calling it something bland like a 'rum sour' it was named after a local beach, the Daiquiri.
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