Cuba beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana
β Scribed by Dubinsky, Karen
- Book ID
- 109609254
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771132695
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents--old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors--go about their daily lives.
As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate, and learn from, in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen's University Student Overseas Travel Fund - The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange.
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