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Launched by the summer '04 award-winning best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books remains its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each publication is made up of all-new testimonies, each one occur a distinct area or location within the town of the publication. Brand new testimonies by: Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Alex Abella, Arturo Arango, Lea Aschkenas, Moisés Asís, Arnaldo Correa, Mabel Cuesta, Paquito D'Rivera, Yohamna Depestre, Michel Encinosa Fú, Mylene Fernández Pintado, Carolina García-Aguilera, Miguel Mejides, Achy Obejas, Oscar F. Ortíz, Ena Lucía Portela, Mariela Varona Roque, and Yoss. To most outsiders, Havana is a exotic sin city: a Roman wreck of love-making and noises, a parallel world familiar but incredible, and embargoed enough to provide as a release valve for whatever desire or pulse has been repressed or refused. Habaneros know that this is neither new - a long time before Havana collapsed through the Revolution's Special Period, completely back to colonial times, it possessed recently been the destination of preference for foreigners who wanted to indulge in what was in any other case forbidden to them - nor particularly true. In the true Havana - the lawless Havana that never looks in the postcards or vacationer guides - the concept of sin has been banished by the urgency of need. And need - aching and famished - inevitably changes the human center darker, feral, and legal. With this Havana, criminal offenses, though officially vanquished by groundbreaking decree, is both wistfully quotidian and personally vicious. Inside the testimonies of Havana Noir, current and past residents of the town - some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others interesting new voices like Yohamna Despestre - uncover offences of violence and loveless love-making, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria.
