Cuba en la encrucijada / Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the: 12 perspectivas sobre la continuidad y el … la habana y en todo el país (Spanish Edition)

Un libro de crnicas cubanas de la mano de doce de los ms prestigiosos periodistas y escritores de nuestro tiempo que abarca poltica y arte msica y bisbol presente y pasado y nos ofrecen una excepcional instantnea de la particular encrucijada en la que se encuentra la sociedad cubana. De todas las preguntas que debe hacerse el periodismo solo hay una que si hablamos de Cuba puede responderse fcilmente: dnde. Todo el mundo sabe ms o menos dnde queda Cuba. Para las dems: qu es Cuba quines son los cubanos cmo es Cuba cundo comenz Cuba a ser lo que es por qu Cuba es como es y diversas variaciones y combinaciones de lo mismo no solo no hay respuestas fciles sino que cada quien parece tener las suyas. Los doce textos que componen este libro procuran alejarse de los reduccionismos ms tpicos y contar el pas desde el territorio ms peligroso y por lo mismo ms interesante de la duda y la contradiccin. Contar Cuba -como contar el desembarco en Normanda o la cada del Muro de Berln- es contar la Historia en maysculas: una tarea ambiciosa. Pero en el tartamudeo ametrallado de los tiempos presentes estos son algunos intentos. -Leila Guerriero ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Spanning politics and art music and baseball Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a societys profound transformationfrom inside and out Change looms in Cuba. Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently Cuba fascinates as much as it confounds. Images of the Buena Vista Social Club wild nights at the Tropicana classic cars and bearded rebels clinching cigars only scrape the surface of Cubas complex history and legacy. As the US and Cuba move toward the normalization of diplomatic relations after an epic fifty-six-year standoff we find ourselves face-to-face with one of the few places in the world that has been off limits to most Americans. We know that Cuba is changing but from what and into what? And what does this change mean for the Cuban people as well as for the rest of the world? Standing on both sides of the divide twelve of our most celebrated writers investigate this period of momentous transition in Cuba on the Verge. These essays span the spectrum from Carlos Manuel lvarezs story of being among the last generation of Cubans to be raised under Fidel Castro to Patricia Engels look at how Cubas capital has changed through her years of riding across it with her taxi driver friend; from The New Yorkers Jon Lee Anderson (who traveled with President Obama on the first trip to Cuba by an American president since the twenties) on being a foreigner in Cuba during the Special Period to Francisco Goldman on the Tropicana then and now to Leonardo Padura on the religion that is Cuban baseball. Cuba on the Verge is the definitive account ofand a unique glimpse ata moment of upheaval and reinvention whose effects promise to reverberate across years and nations.