Telex from Cuba - Rachel Kushner • BookLikes (ISBN:1416561048)

Telex from Cuba

by: Rachel Kushner (author)

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9781416561040 (1416561048)

ASIN: B003A02WJ4

Publish date: June 2nd 2009

Publisher: Scribner

Pages no: 336

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Travel, Literature, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Politics, Contemporary

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Cuba in the fifties was a paradise for American expats. For employees of the United Fruit Company and the Nicaro Nickel Company--for the American employees, anyway--there were servants (carefully trained to cook good American food), parties, and private schools. For Cubans, and for the Haitians and ...

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15 years ago

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This novel is set in Cuba before Castro's revolution. It focuses mainly on the lives of Americans who are exploiting the Cubans through the sugar, nickel and fruit industries. On the positive side, this book reminded me how cut off we are from Cuba and how we really do not learn anything about thi...

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