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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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“[DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see.... You won’t forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma’s bighearted account with a deeper understanding of a storied island.... A remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor.” (The New York Times)
Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families' varied journeys in one community over the last 20 years.
Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
In Guanabacoa, longtime residents prove enterprising in the extreme. Scrounging materials in the black market, Cary Luisa Limonta Ewen has started her own small manufacturing business, a surprising turn for a former ranking member of the Communist Party. Her good friend Lili, a loyal Communist, heads the neighborhood's watchdog revolutionary committee.
Artist Arturo Montoto, who had long lived and worked in Mexico, moved back to Cuba when he saw improving conditions but complains like any artist about recognition. In stark contrast, Jorge García lives in Miami and continues to seek justice for the sinking of a tugboat full of refugees, a tragedy that claimed the lives of his son, grandson, and 12 other family members, a massacre for which the government denies any role. In The Cubans, many patriots face one new question: is their loyalty to the revolution, or to their country?
As people try to navigate their new reality, Cuba has become an improvised country, an old machine kept running with equal measures of ingenuity and desperation. A new kind of revolutionary spirit thrives beneath the conformity of a half century of totalitarian rule. And over all of this looms the United States, with its unpredictable policies, which warmed towards its neighbor under one administration but whose policies have now taken on a chill reminiscent of the Cold War.
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Anna Fifield reconstructs Kim's past and present with exclusive access to sources near him and brings her unique understanding to explain the dynastic mission of the Kim family in North Korea. The archaic notion of despotic family rule matches the almost medieval hardship the country has suffered under the Kims. Few people thought that a young, untested, unhealthy, Swiss-educated basketball fanatic could hold together a country that should have fallen apart years ago. But Kim Jong Un has not just survived, he has thrived.
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Great book
- De WPD en 06-26-19
De: Anna Fifield
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
- De: Helen Zia
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Benny must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. Annuo, forced to flee with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the US in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America.
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Great book, poor performance
- De Helpful Buyer en 07-02-19
De: Helen Zia
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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Midnight in Mexico
- A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
- De: Alfredo Corchado
- Narrado por: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group - and that he had 24 hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life.
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Fascinating & suspenseful historical non-fiction!
- De Ruth Barrie en 06-30-19
De: Alfredo Corchado
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
- One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
- De: Jason DeParle
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age - the age of global migration. In a monumental book that gives new meaning to "immersion journalism", DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family as they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves out of shantytown poverty into a new global middle class.
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Excellent and Important
- De Booklover en 03-22-20
De: Jason DeParle
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The Address Book
- What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
- De: Deirdre Mask
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
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Simply OK
- De CJFLA en 07-18-20
De: Deirdre Mask
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My Father's Paradise
- A Son's Search For His Family's Past
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
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Great story, poorly narrated
- De Oren Kessler en 09-10-24
De: Ariel Sabar
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House of Glass
- The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
- De: Hadley Freeman
- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara, lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz.
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- De Derek en 08-30-22
De: Hadley Freeman
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Eat the Buddha
- Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
- De: Barbara Demick
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the best-selling author of Nothing to Envy.
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- De chetyarbrough.blog en 08-24-21
De: Barbara Demick
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Stealing Home
- Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
- De: Eric Nusbaum
- Narrado por: David Owen Nelson
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy.
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Once Upon a Time at Dodger Stadium
- De James Gamble en 03-06-21
De: Eric Nusbaum
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
- One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
- De: Melissa Fleming
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011 her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa's hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life.
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One woman's story
- De msrae en 07-06-17
De: Melissa Fleming
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Factory Girls
- From Village to City in a Changing China
- De: Leslie T. Chang
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America's shores remade our own country a century ago.
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Living in Shenzhen - and What A Disappointment
- De Abstraction en 03-01-10
De: Leslie T. Chang
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The Yellow House
- De: Sarah M. Broom
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
- De Lindsay en 02-28-20
De: Sarah M. Broom
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From Miniskirt to Hijab
- A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
- De: Jacqueline Saper
- Narrado por: Vaneh Assadourian
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At 18 she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures.
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Very good
- De Matt en 11-10-21
De: Jacqueline Saper
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The Last Jews in Berlin
- De: Leonard Gross
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately 160,000 Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than 5,000 remained in the nation's capital, the epicenter of Nazism, and by the end of the war, that number had dwindled to 1,000. All the others had died in air raids, starved to death, committed suicide, or been shipped off to the death camps. In this captivating and harrowing book, Leonard Gross details the real-life stories of a dozen Jewish men and women who spent the final 27 months of World War II underground, hiding in plain sight.
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Very good WWll Jewish lives in Berlin
- De it.is grat!' en 10-30-24
De: Leonard Gross
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Cubans
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- Amee Arledge
- 07-21-22
Enlightening and eye-opening
I wish this book had been available prior to my 2020 trip to Cuba (2 weeks prior to the COVID-19 shutdown). I would have viewed the country with a deeper understanding of the strength of everyday Cuban citizens. This book has enriched my perspective. I highly recommend this book!
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- DavidPrestonokwu
- 07-29-20
Enlightening
DePalma’s decision to interview ordinary people from Cuba gives the reader a better sense of the micro-effect of the Castro revolution than do accounts written by political types or historians. It is riveting as you get to know and feel the pain and frustration of these remarkable people. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
And of course, Robertson Dean is the best
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- Nicholas
- 10-05-21
Feels like you’re walking alongside the people of Cuba
This was a great book giving you a glimpse of the people Cuba and their life.
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- Laura E. Colombel
- 08-23-24
Historical details
Captivating and engaging- a reminder of the continued pain and struggle yet the perseverance and resilience of the Cuban people.
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- Tinkerbell
- 10-11-20
The real Cuba
I’ve been to Cuba many times and I’ve traveled far beyond the tourist locations. Anthony DePalma filled in many details that haven’t appeared in other books I’ve read. His beautiful writing makes the people real and integrates the history.
It is said Cuba is Complicated. It is less so with this book.
There was extra joy in revisiting the places mentioned in the book and reliving my time in the Pearl of the Antilles.
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- Kim P.
- 07-27-20
Very very real
I have had the honor of returning now six times to my homeland that I left as a child. Not for any political or family reasons, but inspire of them.
What I have found is a similar depth of humanity that DePalma chronicles. Maybe with a deeper sense of spirituality and commitment than he documents. The refinement under fire is the same, but the product is purer and more unselfish than anything we have in Exile.
The kernel of Cuban glory and light highlighted in this book is real. It’s that glimmer that gives me hope for my land of birth and the darkness I see often in parts of the world; even in my adopted and loved USA.
Very real and great storytelling!
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- Susan D.
- 12-04-21
sixty years of pain just 90 miles south
it is so painful as not to be a fun read. but, it fills in the white space that explains why so many Cuban Americans have such strong, negative feelings about castro(s) and the Cuban revolution.
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