First English-Language Bookstore Opens in Cuba Associated Press
go to original August 31, 2013

U.S. citizen Conner Gorry smokes a cigar as she poses for a portrait next to the logo of a new English-language bookstore, cafe and literary salon “Cuba Libro,” a group-owned private enterprise she is part of with five Cubans in Havana, Cuba. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

HAVANA — Cuba’s first English-language bookstore offers a selection that would just about stock the lobby of an average Vermont bed and breakfast. Next to what’s available in English elsewhere in Havana, it might as well be the Library of Congress.

The brainchild of a longtime U.S. expat, Cuba Libro launched this month as a bookshop, cafe and literary salon that offers islanders and tourists alike a unique space to buy or borrow tomes in the language of Shakespeare. Cuba Libro also gives customers an occasional glimpse of opinions hard to find elsewhere on the island.

... The concept was hatched two years ago when a friend told Gorry that she had a sack of about 35 books she didn’t know what do with. More donations swelled the collection to the 300 or so volumes on sale at opening day.

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