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Havana Real
Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today | Yoani Sánchez
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Yoani Sanchez is an unusual dissident. She produces an intelligent diary about what it really means to live under the Castro regime in Cuba today: the difficulty of shopping and chronic hunger, the art of repairing ancient appliances, the struggles for real news and the burdens of reading a single-party newspaper. Through sensitive dispatches, Sanchez draws a vivid picture with brutal honesty. Her simple act of truth-telling, as published on her award-winning blog, GenerationY, is collected here for the first time in English.
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This book consists of blog posts written between 2007 and 2010 from Sánchez' blog "Generacion Y". There is the Soviet elevator in her apartment building, which always gives troubles, the black market and the sometimes strange kinds of lessons her son has to take part in school. The book is an insightful read, but the style of blogposts can get a bit tyring and sometimes all the bits and pieces seem a bit disjointed.

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