“Fine, rich and heady…The novel is dense and pungent with perfect detail…the most promising and beguiling of fiction debuts.”—William Boyd, Time

Cuba and the Night

A Novel

Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro’s Cuba.

Optioned several times and then sold to Hollywood

“An impressive achievement. On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today or, better still, tonight.”The Los Angeles Times

“Enchanting…Iyer cunningly creates characters so full of human interest that this moving and often wrenching novel is as beguiling and memorable as a distant rumba.”Miami Herald

“Brilliant…Iyer has traveled from the world of non-fiction, constrained by facts, to the unharnessed reality of fiction and has succeeded in telling a good story. Readers can only hope he makes this crossover again and again.”Houston Chronicle