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Cuba beyond the beach, stories of life in Havana, Karen Dubinsky

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Cuba beyond the beach

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Karen Dubinsky

stories of life in Havana

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, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents-old Communist ladies, their skeptical 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

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