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Trading With The Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
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by Tom Miller
Sales Rank: 753781
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List Price: $20.00
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
Published by: Basic Books May 30, 1996
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0465086780
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0465086788
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.4 x 1 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Journalist Miller's account of over eight months spent traveling through Cuba details the daily life of the people from Havana to Guantanamo.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
”Havana knew me by my shoes”, begins Tom Miller’s lively and entertaining account of more than eight months traveling through Cuba, from coastal cities to mountain villages, from the Bay of Pigs to both sides of the fence at Guantánamo, mixing with its literati and black marketeers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the author presents us with a rare insight into one of the world’s only Communist countries. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U.S. embargo and tell their favorite Fidel jokes as they stand in line for bread at the Socialism or Death Bakery. Miller provides a running commentary on Cuba’s food shortages, exotic sensuality, and baseball addiction as he follows the scents of Graham Greene, José Marti, Ernest Hemingway, and the Mambo Kings. The result of this informed and adventurous journey is a vibrant, rhythmic portrait of a land and people too long shielded from American eyes.
Reader Reviews
It's hard to work up much enthusiasm, or for that matter, spite about this simple, short book, the recounting of Miller's eight months living in Cuba, spread out over a couple of years. I suppose that's why it took me so long to finish it. It's no page-turner. Miller drives and busses around Cuba, asks himself the same questions again and again in the different regions, dips superficially into recent and distant history, stands in innumerable lines at the Socialism and Death bakery, follows a lousy baseball team for a week on the road, comes close to sexism in a detailed description of the Cuban man's love for the Cuban woman's buttocks, and makes the obligatory visit to Hemingway's years-untouched home. All of it is interesting enough and none of it is captivating. In the end, Miller's snapshot approach winds up making Cuba sound like not much more than one in a number of Caribbean islands. That of course is part of his point, but the more than that of Cuba -- both good and bad -- is what Miller misses. Two hours spent with Buena Vista Social Club is a considerably better investment of time.
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