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The Other Side of Paradise

By Julia Cooke

The Other Side of Paradise

By Julia Cooke

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2014-04-01
Publication Date:
2014-04-01
Publisher:
Basic Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580055311
ISBN13:
9781580055314
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
250 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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