It was Cuba in the early 1960Õs as the USA and USSR brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Renowned author Ernest Hemingway was under
surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There he was, AmericaÕs most famous writer, living in the heart of the revolution in Communist Cuba. There he was, author of For Whom the Bells Tolls, the novel Fidel Castro claimed to have used as a model for his guerilla insurgency.
HemingwayÕs Island is a rich adventure that exposes readers to two distinct narrators of HemingwayÕs last, wild days in Cuba: Mary, HemingwayÕs fourth wife, describing his last week in their Cuban home, the Finca Vig’a, and Alf OÕMalley, a Canadian graduate student in 2010 Havana with his pregnant girlfriend. Alf is a hyperactive, awkward hero who falls into dangerous misadventures as he searches for MaryÕs long-lost manuscript, written for Life Magazine but never published.