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A stunning work of reportage over three generation reveals the terrible lengths to which people must go to survive daily life in Cuba The Cubans is a revelatory account of life in one of the most restrictive, isolated and misunderstood places in the world. *A Sunday Telegraph Best Foreign Affairs Book 2020* In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families to bring the true story of the Cuban people the world. Through their extraordinary journeys, from Castro's heyday, through the devastation of post-Soviet collapse, to the false dawn of recent years, we witness the drama and hardships of life across six decades of socialist state control - where even today the government decides what work you can do and where you live; where food is rationed, basic medicines are unavailable, buildings collapse and rubbish goes uncollected; where millions break the law every day simply to get by. Many celebrate Cuba, one of the world's five remaining communist countries, for bravely holding out against the rampant capitalism of the West. The Cubans lays bare the more complex reality, showing how the revolution that once inspired its people has since tested their faith with tragedy and disillusionment, and revealing the daily acts of heroism and the endlessly adaptive resilience that are required of them to survive.

About the Author :
Anthony DePalma is the author of City of Dust- Illness, Arrogance and 9/11, The Man Who Invented Fidel and Here- A Biography of the New American Continent. For much of his twenty-two years as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, his work focused on Latin America, and he continues to write for the newspaper as well as other publications.

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Vibrant and hugely enjoyable ... DePalma is a terrific reporter, with a novelist's eye for detail. He uses the extraordinary trust he has gained from his subjects to paint a vivid, deeply sympathetic picture of Cuban life, and the quiet fortitude of its people An immersive and compelling read ... DePalma wanted to 'reach beyond the myths, to show the real Cuba and the real Cubans who live there' ... In this, he has succeeded brilliantly A moving and rich account ... DePalma's book is overflowing with warmth and humanity - much like the Cuban people Remarkably revealing ... [DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see ... You won't forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma's bighearted account with a deeper understanding of a storied island Think of this as an anti-Fidel corrective to the scores of volumes fixated on the ruler-for-life-force-of-nature-movie-star dictator DePalma's perceptive portrait of the lives of ordinary citizens, their hopes and inevitable disillusionment after 60 years of revolution ... is a deeply reported ... account of Cuba's bittersweet realities DePalma's page-turning story reveals the voices of ordinary Cubans living through the Castro Revolution's checkered 60-year run. His richly detailed eye-opener offers a front-row seat on the triumphs and tribulations of Guanabacoa families and roller-coasters with emotion through moments of love, humor, pain and horror - witness the haunting account of the sinking of the 13 de Marzo tugboat, and a devastating drastic measure taken for a father suffering dementia. Revealing and unputdownable.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847925152
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Sub Title: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1847925154
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jul 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 162 mm
  • Weight: 691 gr


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