Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Havana without Makeup: Inside the Soul of the City

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Biografier

Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insider’s view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations.

Opening on the eve of the announcement of reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba, the book then looks back at the cultural, political, economic, and religious influences that led up to this historic moment and beyond. Readers are led by a brilliant renaissance man and writer who has been at the vanguard of the city’s struggles for more than twenty years. Portocarero’s anti-tourist guide to Havana examines the built environment of “the most sensual ruin on the planet”: why are large parts of the city so neglected, and what changes may we see over the coming years? Examining all things Cubania--racial issues, la revolución, baseball, Hemingway, communism, synagogues, Santeria, Cimarron culture, and much more--Portocarero overturns every stone in his endeavor to bring us inside the city he loves.

Illustrated with original photographs, this is a unique and essential account of Havana’s history, its present, and what its future may hold.

Herman Portocarero is a Belgian-born writer and diplomat of Spanish and Portuguese descent. He has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Hercule Poirot Prize-winning crime novel New Yorkse Nachten (New York Nights). He is presently the European Union ambassador to Cuba.

© 2017 Turtle Point Press (E-bog): 9781933527925

Release date

E-bog: 29. august 2017

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Secrets & Saviours Beverley Elphick
  2. What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life Robert Wuthnow
  3. The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement Hajar Yazdiha
  4. Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era Jonathan Mermin
  5. Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America Marc Dollinger
  6. Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball Christopher J. Phillips
  7. Of Human Born: Fetal Lives, 1800–1950 Caroline Arni
  8. Pasión Miguel Lourenco Pereira
  9. Siting Michelangelo : Spectatorship, Site Specificity and Soundscape Peter Gillgren
  10. The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah Mark R. Cohen
  11. Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America Hasia R. Diner
  12. Table with a View: The History and Recipes of Nick's Cove Dena Grunt
  13. Retribution Beverley Elphick
  14. Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture Charles Stewart
  15. Genau Riccardo Bevilacqua
  16. Religion and Cultural Studies Susan L. Mizruchi
  17. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes Jerry Z. Muller
  18. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion Robert Wuthnow
  19. In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History Christopher Tomlins
  20. Keeping Faith at Princeton: A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities Frederick Houk Borsch
  21. Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China Tristan G. Brown
  22. Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment Michael D. McNally
  23. Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan Helen Hardacre
  24. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China Stephen F. Teiser
  25. Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground Susan McKay
  26. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity Garth Fowden
  27. Eça de Queiroz: Sparks Brazilian Unrest Paulo Cavalcanti
  28. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine Shigehisa Kuriyama
  29. Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief Gauri Viswanathan
  30. The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity Barbara Hahn
  31. Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland Martha Barnette
  32. Critique of Religion and Philosophy Walter A. Kaufmann
  33. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity Robert Wuthnow
  34. Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville Daniel B. Cornfield
  35. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution James Edward Ketelaar
  36. Vistas of Modernity: decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary Rolando Vázquez
  37. Fringe and Fortune: The Role of Critics in High and Popular Art Wesley Monroe Shrum, Jr.
  38. Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America Michele Currie Navakas
  39. Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class Max Fraser
  40. Bethink Yourselves! Leo Tolstoy
  41. Hitler's defeat: World War II: the best photos from D-Day to the liberation of Europe Alessandro Luigi Perna
  42. Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India Maria Heim
  43. The Barefoot Bingo Caller: A Memoir Antanas Sileika
  44. Dominican colors and swirls Jean-Pierre Alaux
  45. Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism Peter Berkowitz
  46. Art’s Properties David Joselit

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis