Hemingway

S1 E2 | CLIP

Hemingway's Home in Cuba, the Finca Vigía

In the spring of 1939, Ernest Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba where Martha Gellhorn would later join him. Martha rented the Finca Vigía, a 10-acre property outside the city where they could live together, which Hemingway would eventually buy and would become his home for the next two decades.

AIRED: April 06, 2021 | 0:01:56
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(birds chirping)

- [Woman] I woke to look out my window at a Ceiba tree,

so beautiful that you can't believe it.

And hear the palms rattling in the morning wind,

and the sun streaking over the tiled floors

and the house itself wide and bare,

and clean and empty.

Lying quiet all around me

and I am delighted.

- [Narrator] Hemingway was delighted too

and would eventually buy the place outright.

The Finca would be his home for the next two decades.

(slow drum beats)

- (speaking in foreign language)

- [Narrator] People ask you why you live in Cuba

and you say, it is because you like it.

It is too complicated to explain about the early morning

in the Hills above Havana, where every morning is cool

and fresh on the hottest day in summer.

You could tell them that you live in Cuba

because you only have to put shoes on

when you come into town and that you work as well

there in those cool early mornings

as you ever have worked anywhere in the world

but those are professional secrets.

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