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Cuba Diaries - Softcover

Tattlin, Isadora

 
9780553815320: Cuba Diaries
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0553815326 ISBN 13: 9780553815320
Verlag: Bantam, 2003

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A unique and revelatory first-hand account of life in post-Cold War Cuba.

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Isadora Tattlin was born and raised in California and spent her early adulthood in New York City. She lives wherever her husband's job takes them and their two young children.

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The face of modern-day Cuba is in many respects still frozen in the 1950s, with its classic American cars, horse-drawn carriages and colonial Spanish architecture. In a country where taxi drivers earn more than doctors, understanding Cuba is a compelling but never-ending task.

In the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cuba was plunged into crisis. Having been subsidized by the Soviet Union to the tune of $3 million a day, the country's economy entered freefall. The ban on the US dollar was lifted, the floodgates of tourism opened and the salaries of Cubans in contact with foreigners went into orbit.

Into Castro's fortress of dollar-fuelled hedonism and communist austerity came the American wife of a European energy consultant posted to Havana, and their two small children. Isadora Tattlin befriended Cubans from all walks of life, gave dozens of parties - even Fidel Castro came to dinner! - and kept a daily diary. The result is a remarkable testimony to a unique period in Cuba's history when el triunfo de la revolucion was beginning to clash with the powerful lure of multinational consumerism.

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Verlag
Bantam
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0553815326
ISBN 13 
9780553815320
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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