Piece Of Cuban Exile Dies With Miami Bookstore

A Piece Of Cuban Exile Dies
Marta O. Salvat, (l-r), her husband, Juan Manuel Salvat, and daughter, Marta Salvat-Golik, stand in the Libreria Universal which features books in Spanish. (Photo by Nuri Vallbona/Miami Herald/MCT via Getty Images)
Marta O. Salvat, (l-r), her husband, Juan Manuel Salvat, and daughter, Marta Salvat-Golik, stand in the Libreria Universal which features books in Spanish. (Photo by Nuri Vallbona/Miami Herald/MCT via Getty Images)

The topics discussed at its annual book club gatherings varied from how Cuba won its independence from Spain to its early days as a republic to how the island once called “the Pearl of the Caribbean” was crushed by a Communist revolution.

The gatherings took place every December at Miami’s premier Cuban exile bookstore, Librería Universal on Calle Ocho. That’s where a large group of exiled intellectuals gathered to dream out loud of a future for Cuba that hasn’t arrived and where every day exiles bought their books about the real Cuba, not the Fidel Castro regime’s version of it.

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