Cooke, Julia.

The other side of paradise : life in the new Cuba / Julia Cooke. - 236 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-236).

Storm -- Under the table -- Just hair -- Amigos -- Like the stars -- Tarzans and circus clowns -- Special periods -- The revolution will not be televised -- Leavers -- Next year in Havana -- Epilogue.

"Over a period of five years, beginning when Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency after almost a half-century of reign, journalist Julia Cooke embedded herself in Cuba, gaining access to a dynamic Havana--one that she found populated with twenty-f

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Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 --Influence.
Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016


Since 1990


Social change--History--Cuba--Havana--21st century.
Young adults--Cuba--Havana--Biography.
TRAVEL--Essays & Travelogues.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Manners and customs.
Politics and government.
Social change.
Social conditions.
Young adults.


Havana (Cuba)--Social life and customs--21st century.
Havana (Cuba)--Social conditions--21st century.
Havana (Cuba)--Biography.
Cuba--History--1990---Biography.
Cuba--Politics and government--1990-
Cuba.
Cuba--Havana.


Autobiographies.
Nonfiction.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.

F1799.H35 / C66 2014

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