Our woman in Havana : reporting Castro's Cuba / Sarah Rainsford

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"