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Title: The Other Side of Paradise Condition: New Subtitle: Life in the New Cuba Author: Julia Cooke Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1580055311 EAN: 9781580055314 ISBN: 9781580055314 Publisher: Seal Press Genre: Travel & Transport Release Date: 01/04/2014 Description: 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 Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 208mm Item Length: 138mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 225g Release Year: 2014 Missing Information?
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