Our woman in Havana : reporting Castro's Cuba /
Sarah Rainsford
- London : Oneworld Publications, 2018
- viii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maps p. ix Endings p. 1 Part I 1 Without Haste p. 13 2 The Ruins of Havana p. 25 3 Confessions of a Martini Drinker p. 37 4 Consumption Anxiety p. 52 5 Connecting Cuba p. 67 6 The Sleeping Faith p. 81 7 Red Lines p. 96 8 Entertainments and Commitments p. 106 9 Condoms and Cricket p. 122 10 Adela p. 130 11 The Forgotten Reporter p. 141 12 Ways of Escape p. 155 Part II 13 Film Crews and Firing Squads p. 171 14 Love Not Money p. 182 15 Enemies and Allies p. 199 16 Cuba Libre p. 218 17 Athenian Forum p. 226 18 Sympathetic Visitor p. 241 19 The Case of Oswaldo Paya p. 254 20 Exile p. 270 21 Let's Dance p. 282 22 The End of the Affair p. 293 23 Nice Girl from Vedado p. 308 24 Sierra Maestra p. 325 Slow Erosion p. 337 Acknowledgements p. 349 Notes p. 351 Index p. 361
"From inside this tightly controlled one-party state, Sarah Rainsford, the BBC's 'woman in Havana' for three years, reports on lives shaped by Fidel Castro's giant social experiment and how the nation feels as the six-decade rule of the Castros comes to an end. Seeking a window into pre-revolutionary Cuba, she searches for the ghosts of Graham Greene's Havana and the paths walked by other visiting writers (chiefly Ruby Hart Phillips, who covered Cuba from 1937-1961 for the New York Times) hooked on a city where 'every vice was permissible'. Through all these stories and those still being told, 'Our Woman in Havana' weaves an enthralling, atmospheric portrait of this enigmatic country as it teeters, once more, at a historic crossroads"
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Rainsford, Sarah Elizabeth
Historia de Cuba--1990 Periodismo--Historia--Cuba
Cuba --Política y gobierno --Siglo XXI Cuba--Condiciones sociales--Siglo XXI