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The Cubans - Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times (Hardcover)
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The Cubans - Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times (Hardcover)
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List price R725
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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.
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