This Is Cuba
Subtitle: An Outlaw Culture Survives
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780813342245
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Economic Conditions; Archaeology / Anthropology; Travel; Cuba; Anthropology - Cultural; Caribbean & West Indies
First sentence: "Rico mani! Rosita rica!" At the Payret theater on the corner of Prado Avenue and San Jose, an old woman drifts past, drawling out the tired vowels, her hand wrapped around a dozen cucuruchos, white paper cones of fresh roasted peanuts, as if she were clasping a bouquet of fragrant white mariposas.