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The Other Side of Paradise
Life in the New Cuba
Taschenbuch von Julia Cooke
Sprache: Englisch

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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 [...]-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.
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 [...]-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.
Über den Autor
Julia Cooke writes for Virginia Quarterly Review, Conde Nast Traveller, and the Atlantic. Her international reporting has appeared in Monocle, the Wall Street Journal, and Metropolis, and she's written personal essays for the Paris Review Daily, the Christian Science Monitor, and Guernica. 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.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Welt gesamt, Pole
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781580055314
ISBN-10: 1580055311
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cooke, Julia
Hersteller: Basic Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 208 x 139 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Julia Cooke
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2014
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 132663982
Über den Autor
Julia Cooke writes for Virginia Quarterly Review, Conde Nast Traveller, and the Atlantic. Her international reporting has appeared in Monocle, the Wall Street Journal, and Metropolis, and she's written personal essays for the Paris Review Daily, the Christian Science Monitor, and Guernica. 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Welt gesamt, Pole
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781580055314
ISBN-10: 1580055311
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cooke, Julia
Hersteller: Basic Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 208 x 139 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Julia Cooke
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2014
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 132663982
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