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Havana Book Fair Feeds Cuba's Hunger For LiteraturePosted at 8:27AM Thursday 21 Feb 2013 The queue outside the pavilion is long and chaotic, a burly man keeping control with a whistle as the crowd pushes towards him.They are fans of one of Cuba's best-known contemporary writers, Leonardo Padura, and they are at the Havana International Book Fair to get their hands on his latest book. "This is the only place you can get it," Javier laments, "and just look at the queue!" One thousand copies sold out in an instant.
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