Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana

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Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. This book is a compendium of conversations with Cuban people rather than politicians.
Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors—go about their daily lives.

As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate, and learn from, in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen’s University Student Overseas Travel Fund - The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange.
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Weight 0.000000
Author Dubinsky, Karen
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781771132695
Pages 216
Published 01/11/2016
Publisher Between the Lines
Section Travel Writing: General
Size Unfolded 204x152mm
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