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Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba

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Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba

Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, this lively travelogue presents us with rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries.

"Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U.S. embargo and tell their favorite Fidel jokes as they stand in line for bread at the Socialism or Death Bakery.

Miller provides a running commentary on Cuba's food shortages, exotic sensuality, and baseball addiction as he follows the scents of Graham Greene, JosÃ© Marti, Ernest Hemingway, and the Mambo Kings. The result of this informed and adventurous journey is a vibrant, rhythmic portrait of a land and people too long shielded from American eyes.
Country USA
Brand Basic Books
Manufacturer Basic Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2008-09-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780465005031

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