El mañana
Memorias de un éxodo cubano
Written by Mirta Ojito
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
En esta memoria sobre una niña, dos culturas y una lucha por la libertad, la periodista Mirta Ojito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambió su vida para siempre: el éxodo en el 1980 de más de 125.000 cubanos, mejor conocido como el puente marítimo del...
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Cuba Diaries
An American Housewife in Havana
Written by Isadora Tattlin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $13.95
Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband’s work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990s, she resolved to keep a detailed diary of her time there, recording her daily experiences as a wife, mother, and foreigner in a land of contraband. The result...
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The Middle Passage
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and...
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Operacion Pedro Pan
Written by Yvonne Conde
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $15.00
Poco después de establecer su dictadura en 1959, y el caos social que resultó de la misma, corrieron rumores que Fidel Castro decretaría que la potestad de todos los niños cubanos sería asumida por el estado. El terror ocasionado por esta posibilidad impulsó a miles de padres desesperados a enviar a...
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