Books like Cecilia Valdés
Loved Cecilia Valdés by Cirilo Villaverde? Here are 5 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Cecilia Valdés →5 books
- 1Sab
Sab
Gertrudis Gómez de AvellanedaA Cuban romantic novel from 1841 that also takes slavery and forbidden love on the island as its central subject.
- 2Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher StoweA nineteenth-century novel about slavery that uses a wide cast and melodrama to expose the cruelty of the slave system.
- 3Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind
Margaret MitchellA long historical novel of a Southern society built on slavery, with a love story at its center and a sharp sense of class and race.
- 4Three Trapped Tigers
Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteA Havana novel of a later period, full of street talk and city life, that shows the island's social world through many voices.
- 5Our Man in Havana
Our Man in Havana
Graham GreeneA novel set in Havana before the revolution that looks at the city's social and political life through an outsider's eyes.
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