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Our Man in Havana
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.
Critic Reviews
"Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." (John Le Carré)
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- Bondig
- 31-03-2020
Where is Chapter 21? It’s 18 secs long Needs a fix
Like the UK reviewer I have advised Audible of this production error. 1 star is to draw your attention Chapter 21 should be around 5 mins in length Please follow the subsequent reviews which may reflect their issue of a new download. In the meantime please be aware I’m sure it will be 5 stars when fixed Penguin Audio should not have issued the file in this condition.
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- AmazonPete
- 01-04-2020
Annoying music
A great and wryly amusing story by Greene, and a decent performance by Jeremy Northam, but annoyingly marred by excessive musical breaks. They were so frequent and often lengthy that they seemed like padding to make the product longer. They were unnecessary from a story or ambiance perspective, and really grated after a short time listening. If I want to listen to music I'll subscribe to something else.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-12-2020
easy entertainment
easily entertaining, more comedic than greene's other novels, good performance (with slightly annoying musical interludes)
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- Philip H
- 28-03-2020
Something missing from Our Man In Havana
The reason I have given this wonderful book such a low rating is because the narration is incomplete: in particular, Chapter 21 has a lot missing from it. I intend to complain to Audible and hopefully the missing sections can be supplied but clearly this has spoilt my enjoyment. Also, I did not find the intro by Christopher Hitchens. All in all a very disappointing experience. Since the above was written, Audible has suggested I delete the book and re-load it, which I have done. Still part of Chapter 21 missing and no intro from Christopher Hitchens. Very unsatisfactory.
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- Melosaman
- 29-07-2020
Great story, good reading but terrible music!
Another great tale from Graham Greene and a good reading too but I agree with other reviews that there is something missing from one of the chapters early on and also the music is just terrible... Do we really need music in an audio book? No. Do we want absolutely terrible knocked up faux Cuban music between every chapter? Definitely not! So much good music in Cuba and they paid someone for this annoying dross. Plus couldn't there be even just one second between the very last word and the 'this is by audible' voice over? After investing some time in a book it's nice for the last sentence to sink before been instantly bombarded with a bit of advertising. Lazy editing, lazy music but still a good listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-07-2020
There is a bit missing - I want my money back!
Much like all of the other people who have reviewed this book I can’t ignore the fact that they have missed a fairly critical section in the Middle. Why have they not bothered to fix this is a mystery- I really don’t think people Should be asked to pay for this. The fact that there is music in an audio book is annoying the fact that the two pieces they use are overly long, loud and are repeated time and time again is infuriating. A great book with a good narrator ruined by lazy, idiotic production (and audible who haven’t pulled-it despite all the complaints).
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- SE
- 01-06-2020
Sublime parody
I had forgotten how wonderfully parodic this story lampooning the secret world is. What is even more surprising though is the extremely hot water Greene found himself with his old masters after publication. One can’t help but think that Le Carre’s later Panama Tailor draws heavily on Our Man in Havana, and although bleaker, is none the worse for that. Superbly narrated by Jeremy Northam
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- simon whitby brown
- 11-08-2020
Great. Except for music that ruins its efforts.
The story and the performance and excellent, with the characters voiced excellently and the meter being perfect for Greene. However, the intermission music and the music between every chapter absolutely ruins all the hard work done. It is incredibly annoying, goes on for too long and is used far more often than necessary.
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- colin barclay
- 06-12-2020
Awful music
A lovely book and great narration almost completely spoiled by awful music between the chapters.
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- Stephenott
- 14-10-2020
Why the musical intermissions
Loved the book and the very good narration but why oh why have these musical intermissions between chapters. If you don’t mind that a clever and occasionally funny story by a great author.
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- DM
- 22-06-2020
Great fun
Found this really enjoyable and addictive. It contains scenes of hilarious farce that really made me laugh, but also has a real melancholy thread running through it. I'm a fan of musical stings in audiobooks generally. The Cuban jingles in this are perhaps a little overused - and maybe also a bit upbeat for the story - but not off-puttingly so. Also, another reviewer mentioned missing bits. I don't have a book to check it against, so can't be sure, but there did seem to be some missing sections. One or two strange little blips. Didn't affect my enjoyment though. Jeremy Northam brilliant as ever. I'm now off to explore more Graham Greene.
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