Overview
Premio Princesa de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades 2018
En La Habana en un espejo Alma Guillermoprieto reconstruye una de las épocas más difíciles de su vida; formada en las mejores escuelas de baile de Nueva York, a los veinte años viaja a La Habana para impartir clases en la Escuela Nacional de Danza. La confrontación con el régimen castrista y el idealismo del pueblo cubano sacuden la conciencia política de la narradora, todo ello en una época en la que la revolución parecía ser la única solución a muchos problemas.
La Habana en un espejo es la historia de la reivindicación de esta artista y una reflexión acerca de un régimen, y el resultado es un relato cargado de pasión y de ira en el que la autora consigue desmenuzar sus recuerdos con un pulso ágil y minucioso.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever.
In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto–now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America– resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act. Exuberant and elegiac, tender and unsparing, Dancing with Cuba is a triumph of memory and feeling.
This book title, La Habana en un espejo / Dancing with Cuba, ISBN: 9788439711858, by Alma Guillermoprieto, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (January 22, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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