The domino diaries: my decade boxing with Olympic champions and chasing Hemingway's ghost in the last days of Castro's Cuba

✍ Scribed by Brin-Jonathan Butler

• Book ID: 100043767
• Publisher: Picador
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 197 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1250043719

✦ Synopsis

A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba

Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match (against the favorite), becoming romantically entangled with one of Fidel Castro's granddaughters, or simply manufacturing press credentials to go where he wants--Brin-Jonathan Butler has always been the "act first, ask permission later" kind of journalist.
This book is the culmination of Butler's decade spent in the trenches of Havana, trying to understand a culture perplexing to Westerners: one whose elite athletes regularly forgo multimillion-dollar opportunities to stay in Cuba and box for their country, while living in penury. Butler's fascination with this distinctly Cuban idealism sets him off on a remarkable journey, training with, befriending, and interviewing the champion boxers that Cuba seems to...