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092    |fF|aLOPEZRUB 
100 1  López Rubio, Susana,|eauthor. 
245 14 The price of paradise /|cSusana López Rubio ; translated 
       by Achy Obejas. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 Seattle :|bAmazonCrossing,|c[2019] 
300    372 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
500    Translated from the Spanish. 
520    Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished 
       Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana 
       with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of
       a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm, 
       he lands a job as a runner at El Encanto—one of the most 
       luxurious department stores in the world.  Famous for its 
       exquisite offerings from French haute couture to Arabian 
       silks, El Encanto indulges the senses in opulent 
       extravagance. It caters to visiting Hollywood stars, 
       rising politicos, and prerevolutionary Cuba’s wealthiest 
       power players, including the notorious mobster César 
       Valdés.  Falling in love with the mobster’s young wife, 
       Gloria, is suicide. But Patricio is irresistibly drawn to 
       the beautiful girl with sad eyes, a razor-sharp intellect,
       and a penchant for both Christian Dior’s clothes and 
       Einstein’s theories. Within the walls of El Encanto, 
       anything seems possible, even a love that promises to heal
       them and a desire that thrums with the mambo beat of the 
       city itself.  In a reckless love affair that spans half a 
       century, Patricio’s and Gloria’s lives entwine time and 
       again, challenged by every twist of fate—for in a world of
       murder, betrayal, and revolution, those who dare to reach 
       for paradise seldom survive unscathed. (less) GET A COPY 
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