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The Other Side of Paradise

✍ Scribed by Cooke, Julia

Book ID
109939693
Publisher
Seal Press
Tongue
English
Weight
521 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781580055321

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✦ Synopsis

Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in clichΓ©, 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, SanterΓ­a 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...
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All Identifiers : isbn:9781580055321
Single Author : Julia Cooke
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