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Cuba on the Verge audiobook
- By: Leila Guerriero
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Category: Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Collections
- Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 11, 2018
- Language: English
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Cuba on the Verge Audiobook Summary
Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation–from inside and out.
Change looms in Cuba.
Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently, Cuba fascinates as much as it confounds. Images of the Buena Vista Social Club, wild nights at the Tropicana, classic cars, and bearded rebels clinching cigars only scrape the surface of Cuba’s complex history and legacy. As the US and Cuba move toward the normalization of diplomatic relations after an epic fifty-six-year standoff, we find ourselves face-to-face with one of the few places in the world that has been off limits to most Americans. We know that Cuba is changing, but from what and into what? And what does this change mean for the Cuban people as well as for the rest of the world?
Standing on both sides of the divide, twelve of our most celebrated writers investigate this period of momentous transition in Cuba on the Verge. These essays span the spectrum, from Carlos Manuel Alvarez’s story of being among the last generation of Cubans to be raised under Fidel Castro to Patricia Engel’s look at how Cuba’s capital has changed through her years of riding across it with her taxi driver friend; from The New Yorker‘s Jon Lee Anderson (who traveled with President Obama on the first trip to Cuba by an American president since the twenties) on being a foreigner in Cuba during the Special Period to Francisco Goldman on the Tropicana, then and now, to Leonardo Padura on the religion that is Cuban baseball.
Cuba on the Verge is the definitive account of–and a unique glimpse at–a moment of upheaval and reinvention whose effects promise to reverberate across years and nations.
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Cuba on the Verge Audiobook Narrator
Frankie Corzo is the narrator of Cuba on the Verge audiobook that was written by Leila Guerriero
Leila Guerriero is an Argentine journalist and editor whose work has appeared in magazines and journals all over the world, including Argentina’s La Nacion and Rolling Stone and Spain’s El Pais and Vanity Fair. She is the Latin American editor for Gatopardo and has published a number of books, including Los suicidios del fin del mundo (The Suicides at the End of the World) and A Simple Story: The Last Malambo. Other contributors: Wendy Guerra; Leonardo Padura; Francisco Goldman; Jon Lee Anderson; Mauricio Vincent; Abraham Jimenez Enoa; Patricia Engel; Patricio Fernandez; Carlos Manuel Alvarez; Ivan de la Nuez; Vladimir Cruz; Ruben Gallo.
About the Author(s) of Cuba on the Verge
Leila Guerriero is the author of Cuba on the Verge
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Cuba on the Verge Full Details
| Narrator | Frankie Corzo |
| Length | 9 hours 11 minutes |
| Author | Leila Guerriero |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | December 11, 2018 |
| ISBN | 9780062908247 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Cuba on the Verge is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Collections
Additional info
The publisher of the Cuba on the Verge is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062908247.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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