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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Cuba
- ISBN
- 9781772012453
- Book Title
- Orwell in Cuba : How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight
- Publisher
- Talonbooks, The Limited
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
- Topic
- Caribbean & Latin American, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Human Rights, Propaganda, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
- Item Weight
- 13.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Talonbooks, The Limited
ISBN-10
1772012459
ISBN-13
9781772012453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038489967
Product Key Features
Book Title
Orwell in Cuba : How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Human Rights, Propaganda, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
Genre
Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"The greatest strength of Orwell in Cuba lies in the street-level view it affords of ordinary Cubans negotiating the absurdities of daily life as an entrenched regime is losing its grip." --Ian McGillis, Montreal Review of Books
Synopsis
Orwell in Cuba: How '1984' Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight is a personal account of today's Cuba at a pivotal point in its history, with the Castro brothers passing power on to a new generation. The book is akin to a detective story, as the author investigates how and why a state-run publishing house has come to release a new translation of George Orwell's iconic anti-totalitarian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four, formerly taboo., "Orwell in Cuba: How '1984' Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight" is a personal account of contemporary Cuba at a pivotal point in its history, with the Castro brothers passing power on to a new generation. We discover Cuba through the adventures, inquiries, and encounters of a Canadian journalist and writer trying to make sense of the current climate in Cuba and of how Cubans feel about the past, present, and future of their island. "Orwell in Cuba" is also akin to a detective story, as the author investigates how and why a state-run publishing house came to release a new translation of George Orwell's iconic anti-totalitarian novel "Nineteen-Eighty-Four," formerly taboo, in the year 2016. These two quests are intertwined in the book, giving the reader an unusual experience: that of following a suspenseful trail while at the same time becoming increasingly familiar with the Cuban people's relationship to the regime, and absorbing a wealth of information as to how they succeed in coping with the island's often challenging living conditions., Orwell in Cuba chronicles journalist Frédérick Lavoie's attempts to unravel the motives behind the mysterious appearance of a new translation of George Orwell's 1984, formerly taboo in Cuba, just ahead of the country's twenty-fifth International Book Fair. Lavoie works to make sense of how Cubans feel about the past, present, and future of their island - and how the political regime is adapting, or not, to life in the twenty-first century. His intertwined quests give readers the unique experience of following a suspenseful trail while at the same time becoming increasingly familiar with Cubans' relationship to the regime and their strategies for coping with the island's often challenging living conditions., Orwell in Cuba chronicles journalist Frédérick Lavoie's attempts to unravel the motives behind the mysterious appearance of a new translation of George Orwell's 1984, formerly taboo in Cuba, just ahead of the country's twenty-fifth International Book Fair. Lavoie works to make sense of how Cubans feel about the past, present, and future of their island - and how the political regime is adapting, or not, to life in the twenty-first century. His intertwined quests give readers the unique experience of following a suspenseful trail while at the same time becoming increasingly familiar with Cubans' relationship to the regime and their strategies for coping with the island's often challenging living conditions. Book jacket.
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