Our People in Havana
About This Novel
No wonder he is Marquez's literary idol! Graham Greene is a legendary master who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 21 times. "Our Man in Havana" was selected into the American Mystery Writers Association's Top 100 Mysteries. In 1959, it was adapted into a movie of the same name, directed by world-famous director Carol Reed, and is a classic in film history. In this book, Green tells the absurd story of a whimsical little person. In this absurd world, we only need to be loyal to the people we love. British businessman Woolmore runs a vacuum cleaner agency in Havana, Cuba, and raises his beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter Milly alone. Her daughter is getting older and spending money every day, which worries Woolmer. At this time, a British intelligence officer suddenly appeared and asked Woolmore to be his downline and collect local intelligence. Woolmore found this to be a rare opportunity to make money. In order to give his daughter a better life, Woolmore fabricated one big lie after another: fictitious economic data, informants who never existed, and a "nuclear weapon structural diagram" drawn based on vacuum cleaner parts. What's funny is that the intelligence services actually believed it. What's even more unbelievable is that one of his fictional characters actually appeared...
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