Havana (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction) - Hardcover

Kurlansky, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410499235 ISBN 13: 9781410499233

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2017

Synopsis

"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'sown 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 the revolution. Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentierand Josâe Martâi, 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. Once the only country Americans couldn't visit, Cuba is now opening to us, as is Havana, not only by plane or boat but also through Mark Kurlansky's multilayered and electrifying portrait of the long-elusive city"--

About this title

About the Author

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, International Night, The Eastern Stars, A Continent of Islands, and The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit s Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. Salt was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com."

Review

"Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining." "New York Times Book Review on THE BIG OYSTER"

"Memorable, essential, and . . . wondrous." "The Boston Globe on 1968"

"An elegant brief history . . . related with vast brio and wit." "Los Angeles Times on COD""

"Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining." New York Times Book Review on THE BIG OYSTER

"Memorable, essential, and . . . wondrous." The Boston Globe on 1968

"An elegant brief history . . . related with vast brio and wit." Los Angeles Times on COD

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An elegant brief history . . . related with vast brio and wit. - Los Angeles Times on COD

A lively, anecdotal, all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement. - Atlantic Monthly on THE BASQUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt . . . fascination and surprise regularly erupt from the detail. - The New York Times Book Review on SALT

Memorable, essential, and . . . wondrous. - The Boston Globe on 1968

Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining. - New York Times Book Review on THE BIG OYSTER

Kurlansky s telling of this history . . . is swift, crisp, and deft. - The Atlantic on PAPER

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"An affectionate, richly detailed, brief biography of a unique city." - Kirkus Reviews

An elegant brief history . . . related with vast brio and wit. - Los Angeles Times on COD

A lively, anecdotal, all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement. - Atlantic Monthly on THE BASQUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt . . . fascination and surprise regularly erupt from the detail. - The New York Times Book Review on SALT

Memorable, essential, and . . . wondrous. - The Boston Globe on 1968

Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining. - New York Times Book Review on THE BIG OYSTER

Kurlansky s telling of this history . . . is swift, crisp, and deft. - The Atlantic on PAPER

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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1410499235
• ISBN 13: 9781410499233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 293