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Title: The Other Side of Paradise
Condition: New
Author: Julia Cooke
Publisher: Seal Press
Subtitle: Life in the New Cuba
ISBN-10: 1580055311
EAN: 9781580055314
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781580055314
Release Date: 04/01/2014
Language: English
Item Height: 208mm
Item Length: 138mm
Item Width: 18mm
Genre: Travel & Transport
Description: Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa. This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today.Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.
Item Weight: 225g
Release Year: 2014

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