Hundred Fires in Cuba by John Thorndike
Thanks to Max López of JKS Communications, I am giving away 3 print copies of ‘A Hundred Fires in Cuba by John Thorndike.
Description Hundred Fires in Cuba by John Thorndike
In the spring of 1956, a young American photographer falls in love with a Cuban line cook in New York. They have a ten-week affair which ends when Immigration arrests and deports him, and by then Clare Miller is pregnant.
Few Americans know the name Camilo Cienfuegos. All Cubans do. He was the most charismatic of Castro’s rebel commanders. But Clare, who never hears from him after he’s deported, believes he has died in Fidel’s invasion of the island. She marries a wealthy Cuban businessman and moves to Havana with her two-year-old daughter, only to discover that her first love is not only still alive, he’s now head of the Cuban Army.
Clare knows that Camilo likes to dance and drink. He likes women, and too many women like him. Though his courage is legendary, when he comes to visit at night he’s afraid of his daughter’s moods. He feeds her, he reads to her, he changes her diapers, but for him an all-night march would be easier. Clare worries that he’ll never make a good parent, but she cannot resist him.
Praise Hundred Fires in Cuba by John Thorndike
“Thorndike is a talented, experienced writer, and Clare and Camilo especially are fully developed, attractive characters…. A highly recommended rendering of a love affair and mysterious slice of Cuban history.” – Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)
“The prose is elegantly crafted….A Hundred Fires in Cuba is a sophisticated historical novel that effectively deploys a love triangle to capture the essence of a remarkable figure and the historic period that produced him, laying bare the yearnings of the heart.” –Foreword Reviews
“Thorndike weaves a complex love affair into one of the hemisphere’s great dramas, the Cuban Revolution. Evocative prose, timeless conflicts, and an intimate story full of surprises.” –Natalie Goldberg, author of Wild Mind and Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home
About John Thorndike
John Thorndike grew up in New England, graduated from Harvard, took an MA from Columbia, then lit out for Latin America. He spent two years in the Peace Corps in El Salvador and two, with his wife and child, on a backcountry farm in Chile. Eventually he settled with his son in Athens, Ohio, where for ten years his day job was farming. Then it was construction.
His first two books were novels, followed by a memoir, Another Way Home, about his wife’s schizophrenia and his life as a single parent. A second memoir, The Last of His Mind, describes his father’s year-long descent into Alzheimer’s. A Hundred Fires in Cuba is his latest novel, and he’s at work on the next one, a half-fictional evocation of his mother’s life.
Website: http://www.johnthorndike.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnThorndikeAuthor/
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Giveaway Hundred Fires in Cuba by John Thorndike
This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on September 14, 2018 midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
I know so little about Cuba, it seems like one of the world’s more mysterious countries sometimes. It would be great to learn more even through fiction. Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
Very interesting storyline. Sounds like an amazing book. Well known author. Thank you for this chance to read a copy.
Hi Teddy, I am very strongly interested in this new release because of the stellar reviews and the Cuban history interwoven with the ficitonal characters’ individual personalities and travails. Cheers, Kara S
This historical novel sounds fascinating. Thank you.