Havana Without Makeup : Inside the Soul of the City

Portocarero loves Havana and it's people. This enchanting love affair is presented to the reader through 87 vignettes , varying , amongst many others, from neighbourhood walking tours, introductions to Santeria, insights into the problems of writers critical of the "system" (Padura and Gutierrez) , and of course politics.Portocarero's views , where it concerns politics, are unsentimental , maybe surprisingly so for a '68 European intellectual, but then he has never ... >Voir plus