Cuba, the Land of Miracles – A journey through modern Cuba –

Stephen Smith

“… Cubans describe their nation as ‘The Land of Miracles’ in ironic tribute to the privations of life in a Communist country long after the rest of the world has junked Marx.

It is through this land of cutbacks and economic instability that Stephen Smith travelled. Searching for both the real Cuba and Fidel Castro, the man who has shaped the island’s history for nearly fifty years, Smith dines on giant rat, checks into a Love Hotel, poses as a second-hand arms dealer and gets his head down on Castro’s bed. With disarming wit and considerable insight, he discovers a country ruled by Marxist tenets yet dependent on tourism, a country where communism and voodoo co-exist, and where Castro’s influence continues to throw a long shadow.”tephen Smith went to live there, and his search for the real Cuba become, inevitably, a search for Fidel Castro. Before meeting his quarry, Smith traversed the island in an old American car, along the way dining on giant rat, checking into a Love Hotel, posing as a second-hand arms dealer, and getting his head down on Castro’s bed. This is an insightful, disarmingly witty portrait of a country where communism and voodoo co-exist, and where the influence of its leader continues to throw a long shadow.


Kenmerken

ISBN

9780349119670

Uitgever

Abacus

Uitgave

2008

Oorspronkelijk

1997

Talen Engels
Landen Cuba,

Beschrijving

paperback, 292 blz, in goede staat

9.95

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