The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba
Autor Julia Cookeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2014
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
Paradiseoffers
a
deep
new
understanding
of
a
place
that
has
so
confounded
and
intrigued
us.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781580055314
ISBN-10: 1580055311
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Seal Press
ISBN-10: 1580055311
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Seal Press
Notă biografică
Julia
Cooke
writes
for
Virginia
Quarterly
Review,
Conde
Nast
Traveller,
andThe
Atlantic.Her
international
reporting
has
appeared
inMonocle,The
Wall
Street
Journal,
andMetropolis,
and
she's
written
personal
essays
for
theParis
Review
Daily,
The
Christian
Science
Monitor,
andGuernica.
Cooke
is
the
recipient
of
fellowships
from
The
Norman
Mailer
Center
and
Columbia
University.
She
currently
lives
in
New
York
City,
where
she
teaches
writing
at
The
New
School.
Recenzii
"This
irresistible
gander
at
Cuba
today
features
the
liveliest
prose
and
the
sharpest
eye
for
detail.
The
contradictions
and
improvisatory
adjustments
within
this
strange
society
are
brought
home
through
a
series
of
vital
portraits
by
the
author,
Julia
Cooke,
whose
sympathy
never
gets
in
the
way
of
her
search
for
the
elusive
truth."
--Phillip Lopate
"Cooke introduces a world that somehow makes sense in its lack of reason, as understood by American readers. An excellent taste of Cuba today, without tourist plans or political agenda."
--Kirkus Reviews
"With top-notch reporting and an eye for detail, Cooke dives deeply into post-Fidel Cuba to deliver an intimate, exuberant, poignant account of lives spent waiting for change."
--Elisabeth Eaves, author ofWanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
"In a series of nimble profiles, Cooke expertly documents what is likely to be the last generation of the lost youth of Cuba-the teens of the transition, with all their contradictions, sorrows, and calluses.The Other Side of Paradiseis a tear-through read, full of vitality and compassion."
--Deb Olin Unferth, author ofRevolution
--Phillip Lopate
"Cooke introduces a world that somehow makes sense in its lack of reason, as understood by American readers. An excellent taste of Cuba today, without tourist plans or political agenda."
--Kirkus Reviews
"With top-notch reporting and an eye for detail, Cooke dives deeply into post-Fidel Cuba to deliver an intimate, exuberant, poignant account of lives spent waiting for change."
--Elisabeth Eaves, author ofWanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
"In a series of nimble profiles, Cooke expertly documents what is likely to be the last generation of the lost youth of Cuba-the teens of the transition, with all their contradictions, sorrows, and calluses.The Other Side of Paradiseis a tear-through read, full of vitality and compassion."
--Deb Olin Unferth, author ofRevolution