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Ebook About A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures. Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it is today--from the native Taino to Columbus's landing, from Cuba's status as a U.S. protectorate to Batista's dictatorship and Castro's revolution, from Soviet presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since long before the revolution. Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentier and José Martí, and foreigners, including Graham Greene and Hemingway. He introduces us to Cuban baseball and its highly opinionated fans; the city's music scene, alive with the rhythm of Son; its culinary legacy. Through Mark Kurlansky's multilayered and electrifying portrait, the long-elusive city of Havana comes stirringly to life.Book Havana: A Subtropical Delirium Review :
I felt this was a very poor view of Havana and its definitely not a travel guide. Havana was a beautiful city before the Castros and Communism took it over. Under the dictator Batista there were serious problems in Havana and the whole country, that is why the Castros were welcomed as the new savors to establish democracy. But the Castros brought nothing but Communism and even a worst government that before. When the Castros came in power Cuba had a population of 6.8 million , almost a million people left as their properties, money and homes were confiscated by the government. Pre Castro Havana, as well as all the island, was over 80% Catholic , that being the main religion in the island. Kurlansky totally skips the horrible changes that Castro did when he came into power and how the city has deteriorated since that time. Castro forbid religion and kicked all priests and nuns out of the country. How dare Kurlansky says people can talk and criticize the government when Cuba has one of the highest prison populations in the world, over 57,000 in a population of 11 million.- over 90% political prisoners. The Cuban people are not allowed, nor have the money, to enjoy the beautiful hotels and restaurants in Havana which are only for the tourists. Food is in shortage and rationed and the black market is the only way to get meat most of the time. The wages of the people are minimal, as they are governed by the state, and at least now they are allowed to open home restaurants “paladares” and work in the tourist business to make extra money. So doctor, professors, and other professionals are working on the side to support their families. Kurlansky skims over the atrocities the Castro brothers and "el Che" did to those who dare go against them. There was a wall called "el paredon", which the sadistic Che oversaw, where prisoner against the revolution were shot, many without trials. My father was taken prisoner from our house in the middle of the night various times for being suspected of being against the government. The country lived in fear of the "G-2"- the neighborhood watch people who reported all back to the government. Kurlansky totally skips all this and the fact that no one was allowed to leave the island after the 1962 the Missile crisis. Baseball players and other athletes, as well as musicians, scientists have to "defect" to the USA or other countries if they want to live and work outside of Cuba, as they are not freely allowed to leave, and then cannot return to the island. As a Cuban I was most upset and disappointed in such a bias and incomplete history of Havana and my country. Havana, A Subtropical DeliriumHave you ever thought of a city as a person, as someone who is alive and waiting to make your acquaintance? This is a new idea for me. It came after I started reading "Havana" by Mark Kurlansky.He begins by saying in the Prologue, “If I were ever to make an old-fashioned film noir…I would shoot it in Havana.” He goes on to talk about other writers and poets who have found Havana fascinating. It seems you have a very different impression of Havana if you first see it from the sea, rather than from land.Mr. Kurlansky tells how Habana Vieja (Old Havana), the original city, developed. The streets in this section were, and still are, very narrow and dark. The sidewalks are narrower still, all because the sun is so hot. So, when people put awnings up, they tie them to the building across the street. That way everyone passing below gets the shade.One of the more interesting things I learned is that the city was founded three times in three different places. And Mr. Kurlansky has lots of interesting anecdotes to tell about how each settlement was founded.Havana was invaded many times, always from the sea. There were the French pirates in 1538 and 1555 and different ones came again many times after that. Each time the townspeople paid a ransom and those that were still alive rebuilt. They built one fortress and then another and, over time, they added to each. It didn’t seem to make much difference. There seemed to be no shortage of pirates coming from the sea, and so, there would be another raid.Havana grew and became an important commercial port in the 1700s. African slaves were brought in around this time to do the work.Mr. Kurlansky says, “It has at times been suggested that the impact of slavery on modern Cuba is exaggerated, but so profound and fundamental is slavery to the identity of both Havana and Cuba that it would be almost impossible to overstate it.He goes on to say that there were people alive in 1980 who had known their grandparents who had been born in Africa. Imagine that!I’m going to stop here because I don’t want to give too much away. 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