Cirules, another time in the bookstores of Camagüey

The Empire of Havana and The secret Life of Meyer Lansky,volumes of the writer from Nuevitas Enrique Cirules, were presented this Tuesday in the city of Camagüey, where are for sale.

The reprint of both testimonies, now in a single volume, corresponded to the editorial Cuban Letters, in the context of the International Fair of the Book this year in Havana.

The Empire of Havana that narrates “the lattices of the incredible corruption in a Havana aparencial”, was Prize Casa de las Americas 1993, and also deserved later the critic's recognition one year, among other rewards.

“It is characters that darkened the complex Cuban history, and that have not been the sufficiently studied ones”, expressed Enrique Cirules.

In a previous interview, the also author of Conversation with the last North American, offered elements of the linking of the general Fulgencio Batista with the American mafia.

The secret life of Meyer Lansky is one of the most developing testimonies in that time. Book of memoirs of who was driver and the boss's bodyguard of the mafioso clan Havana-the Vegas during 1957-1958.

“It is a faithful and fascinating reconstruction of a time Havana. For first time was possible to reconstruct passages of the life of the most important, invisible and astute character in the North American underworld, with their passions, their loves, their nostalgies and methods of acting, amid very special circumstances, when was deciding becoming of the mafia in United States.” (Lázaro David Najarro Pujol)