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Book Synopsis The Maids of Havana by : Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Download or read book The Maids of Havana written by Pedro Pérez Sarduy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 55 314 Escritor/Periodista 2 1 385 12.0 Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami A history full circle?
Book Synopsis The History of Havana by : Dick Cluster
Download or read book The History of Havana written by Dick Cluster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city, and the first to be co-authored by a Cuban and an American. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, Cluster and Hernández explore the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies. The authors bring together conflicting images of a city that melds cultures and influences to create an identity that is distinctly Cuban.
Book Synopsis I Live in Havana by : Jordan Lancaster Ortega
Download or read book I Live in Havana written by Jordan Lancaster Ortega and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Children are born to be happy” is a phrase by Cuba’s national hero, José Martí. This is a beautiful book, with exquisite illustrations, that tells a cheerful and simple story of the daily life of a Cuban child. The book demonstrates the traditions and customs of children and families in Cuba as well as iconic places in Havana where Yadira lives. The priority given to child development in Cuba is an example for Latin America and the world. Cuban children enjoy health, education, sports and art for free and according to UNICEF Cuba is the only country in the region to have eliminated child malnutrition. - Dr. Helen Yaffe, University of Glasgow “Los niños nacen para ser felices” es una frase del héroe nacional de Cuba, José Martí. Este es un hermoso libro, con exquisitas ilustraciones, que narra la historia alegre y sencilla de la vida diaria de una niña cubana. El libro muestra algunas de las tradiciones y costumbres de los niños y familias cubanas así como lugares icónicos de la Habana donde vive Yadira. La prioridad dada al desarrollo infantil en Cuba es un ejemplo para América Latina y el Mundo. Los niños cubanos gozan de salud, educación, deporte y arte de manera gratuita, según UNICEF, Cuba es el único país de la región que ha logrado eliminar la desnutrición infantil. - Dr. Helen Yaffe, Universidad de Glasgow
Book Synopsis San Cristóbal de la Habana by : Joseph Hergesheimer
Download or read book San Cristóbal de la Habana written by Joseph Hergesheimer and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a travelogue of Havana in the early 20th century.
Book Synopsis The Rough Guide to Havana by : Rough Guides
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Havana written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Havana is the essential travel guide with clear maps and coverage of the unforgettable attractions of Cuba's lively capital. From the Museo de la Revolución and other must-visit museums and galleries to splendid architectural gems including the Catedral de San Cristóbal, the Rough Guide steers you to the best restaurants, stylish bars & cafés, and hottest nightlife in Havana across every price range. The guide provides comprehensive coverage of hotels as well as private homestays, the best places to stay for an up-close experience of life in Cuba. You'll find detailed coverage of the outer boroughs La Lisa and Marianao as well as an unprecedented level of detail for the main four city neighbourhoods, Habana Vieja, Centro Habana, Vedado and Miramar. Rely on insider tips on everything from where to go for local music and jazz, shop for Cuban film posters, guayabera shirts and rum, and witness the time, skill and effort involved in producing Cuban cigars. Explore all corners of the city with authoritative background on Cuban history and a succinct political analysis of the Cuban Revolution, relying on the clearest maps of any guide and practical language tips. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Havana
Book Synopsis Old Havana, Cuba by : Nicolas Sapieha
Download or read book Old Havana, Cuba written by Nicolas Sapieha and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Havana written by Joseph L. Scarpaci and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and redesigned, this book assesses nearly 500 years of urban development and planning in Havana, paying particular attention to the city's rich blend of Spanish-Cuban-Latin American-North American architecture and design.
Book Synopsis Exit Havana by : Randdy Fundora Caraballo
Download or read book Exit Havana written by Randdy Fundora Caraballo and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will not see in this book the great History, in capital letters. Instead, it is a story of minimal gestures, of minimal characters that become greater when illuminated by the appropriate light. If you see a sign that says Exit Havana, don't pay too much attention, because it could indicate precisely the opposite: an entrance, and the best introduction to a city that survives time with a unique personality. The author, Randdy Fundora, captures passages from Havana, both the intimate details of daily life and the great views that allow you to take the pulse of a city that resists the passage of time. The images tell, from the closeness and the anti-romantic approach, a story of Havana, not the only one. Exit Havana is a look at one of the most unique cities in the world.
Download or read book Havana & the Best of Cuba written by and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of resident journalists so that the true flavour of the city can be captured, this guide gives independent, impartial advice to inform and entertain. More than 700 venues are reviewed and all price ranges and tastes are covered.
Book Synopsis Havana: Autobiography of a City by : Alfredo José Estrada
Download or read book Havana: Autobiography of a City written by Alfredo José Estrada and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero. Deeply personal and affecting, Havana is the accessible and complete story of the city for the history buff and armchair traveler alike.
Book Synopsis Havana 500 Anniversary Habana 500 Aniversario by : Andres R Rodriguez
Download or read book Havana 500 Anniversary Habana 500 Aniversario written by Andres R Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAVANA'S HISTORY AT A GLANCE: San Cristóbal de La Habana was founded in 1519. The city began as a small collection of huts that eventually became the Spanish Empire's main naval station in the world. La Habana became a thriving, entrepreneurial port, the Caribbean's lighthouse-city, within the colonial Spanish Caribbean, due to its excellent harbor and strategic position facing the Gulf Stream. In 1553, Havana became the island's capital. In the 16th century and beginning of the 17th the city was attacked and besieged on several occasions by French, British and Dutch pirates, which catalyzed the construction of defenses, including massive walls. Its occupation by the British in 1762 led to Havana being exchanged for Florida, an indication of the high value the King of Spain placed on it. The King ordered the reinforcement of its fortifications to the highest possible level. Havana thus became the best protected of the ports in Spanish America. By 1810 the Spanish Main was imploding, and Havana ceased to be a must-stop trading post. Cuba remained part of Spain until 1898, perhaps because of its amazing wealth, its siege fortress tradition and extreme militarization. The country's destiny after 1898 was closely linked to the United States. As the largest of the islands in continental proximity between the subtropics and the tropics, and between English and Spanish America, Cuba was surrounded and affected by different socio-political trends. All this adds exoticism to Havana's urban culture. Its architecture includes buildings of great visual and cultural impact: Castillo del Morro (Morro Castle), Palacio del Segundo Cabo (Palace of the Second Corporal), Palacio de los Capitanes Generales (Captains-General Palace) or the Capitolio (Capitol Building). Havana, the "Paris of the Caribbean," was destined to become a place of refuge, a creative, hospitable, open and cosmopolitan city. As sweat turned into stone and mortar, a local way life, open to the world, became the distinguished trait of Habaneros as good hosts. On its flagpoles would wave proudly the flags of Spain, Britain, the U.S., and finally, Cuba. The sense of Cuban nationality was built around the concept of Havana, as presaged by the mass conducted at the site called El Templete in 1519. Perhaps more than a nationality, what the old stones of Havana exude is global universality.
Download or read book Havana written by Juliet Barclay and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its historic forts to its lushly tropical courtyards, from the city squares to the statues and fountains, take a captivating tour through the city of Havana. Magnificent color photographs capture the well-known spots and uncover the quiet corners; vintage black-and-white images showcase the important explorers who changed the course of Cuba's development, as well as landmarks of the past. A fascinating history traces life in Havana from the early 16th century to its heyday in the 19th . Information for the traveler guides the would-be tourist to this newly "in" holiday destination, made popular by the mainstream success of films and music, including the Buena Vista Social Club. It's a lovely tribute to the most extravagantly beautiful city in the Caribbean.
Download or read book Havana la Habana written by Nancy Stout and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a photographic tour of the city's houses, gardens, gas stations, cinemas, cemeteries, and barbershops while discussing historical and cultural aspects of Cuban architecture.
Book Synopsis Havana by : María Luisa Lobo Montalvo
Download or read book Havana written by María Luisa Lobo Montalvo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exquisite volume, author Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo presents the architecture and history of Havana - part of which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site - in an accessible and engaging text and specially commissioned color photographs."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Havana written by and published by Umbrage Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El norteamericano Burt Glinn podría ser el fotógrafo extranjero que más testimonio visual obtuvo del minuto histórico que dió un vuelco revolucionario a la realidad cubana contemporánea. Algunos de sus más significativos trabajos han terminado siendo parte fundamentalmente integrante de la memoria visual del proceso que se desencadenó victoriosamente en el país, el 1ro de Enero de 1959. La atmósfera de efervescencia popular y el júbilo callejero de aquella jornada fueron magistralmente recogidos por el ojo inquisitivo del artista, que supo encontrar sentido y trascendencia en los gestos cargados de profunda emoción y colorido triunfalismo que caracterizaron la victoria de Fidel Castro y su ejército rebelde en Cuba; movimiento que desencadenaría un proceso transformador y radical que rápidamente sería visto con simpatía por el resto de los pueblos más pobres del continente americano.
Book Synopsis The Book of Havana by : Daniel Chavarria
Download or read book The Book of Havana written by Daniel Chavarria and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics to fully comprehend… On the day of their graduation, a group of students spend the night drinking around the ‘Fountain of Youth’, ironically celebrating the bright future that doesn’t await them… The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana’s citizens have had to endure as a result of their country’s political isolation – from the hardships of the ‘Special Period’, to the pitfalls of Cuba’s schizophrenic currency system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods – from the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs of the Malecón and Vedado – these stories also demonstrate the defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Séamas Carraher.
Book Synopsis Havana is a Really Big City by : Mirta Yáñez
Download or read book Havana is a Really Big City written by Mirta Yáñez and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These humorous and poignant stories that illustrate everyday life in contemporary Havana will challenge the reader's assumptions about the Cuban reality. Mirta Yanez is a Havana-born poet, novelist, critic, and extraordinary writer of short fiction. Her narrative stands out by virtue of a complex yet unmistakable Cuban flavor and a characteristic preoccupation with the social, political, and economic particularities of the island and how these affect los cubanos. Catherine Davies notes that ''Yanez writes about everyday life in Havana; her chatty, colloquial style full of light-hearted humour, whatever the theme, makes her fiction a delight to read''. --Amazon.com.
