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In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to
take a job teaching at Cuba's National School of Dance. For six
months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more
revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked
without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic
shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba
a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever.
In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto- now an award-winning
journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America-
resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy
the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a
profoundly political act. Exuberant and elegiac, tender and
unsparing, Dancing with Cuba is a triumph of memory and feeling.
For one year, Alma Guillermoprieto lived in Manguiera, a village near Rio de Janeiro, to learn the ritual of samba--the sensuous song and dance marked by a rapturous beat--and to take part in Rio's renowned carnivale parade.
From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos, leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and political figures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president, Vicente Fox.
Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana or staying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniac Subcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion and knowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst. Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant, empathetic, and beautifully written.
A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction by Mexico’s greatest twentieth-century woman writer, The Book of Lamentations draws on two centuries of struggle among the Maya Indians and the white landowners in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico. The stark clarity of Castellanos’s vision is beautifully rendered in Esther Allen’s masterful first-ever English translation.
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