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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781741795196
Intrigued by the many disparate views of Cuba, Zoe Bran visits
the country of contradictions and, interweaving history and current
events, personal and wider viewpoints, she paints a vivid and
compelling picture of contemporary Cuba. She finds a land that has
little in common with the tourist image of tropical paradise,
encountering a different country whose people reveal an
individuality and tenacity at once astonishing and humbling.
Zoe Bran has always been fascinated by the gap between the ideals
of the world’s socialist countries and the arduous hand-to-mouth
struggles of the people who live in them. Castro’s Cuba is one of
the last such places on earth. Seeking to understand the realities
of Cuba today, Zoe travels the length of this beautiful island.
Beneath the surface of music and dancing, cockfights and animal
sacrifice, she finds a land of complex ambiguities: a fertile land
where many hunger; an educated country with scant knowledge of the
outside world, a nation exhausted by socialism but proud of its
independence and history of revolutionary struggle. From Havana to
the pastoral hinterland, Zoe talks with writers and artists, with
expatriates, with committed revolutionaries and those desperate to
escape abroad. Enduring Cuba presents a kaleidoscope of Cuba and
its people, whose tenacity and endurance is at once astonishing and
humbling.
Acknowledgements
Preface
Map
Arrival
I.a Habana
Centro
San L zaro
Valla de Gallos
The Cardinals
Oriente
Gothique Tropicale
The Homed Moon
Baracoa
Guantanamera
Heartlands
Puerto Pr ncipe
Adelante !
Los Cantos de los Hombres
West
Vi ales
Our Man in Havana
Glossary
…Lonely Planet, the intrepid traveler’s bible…’ –Los
Angeles Times, April 2005
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition
of this title.
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