Dancing with Cuba(Reprint) A Memoir of the Revolution by AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72581-4, ISBN: 0-375-72581-4 "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 fore ..."
Looking for History Dispatches from Latin America by AlmaGuillermoprieto, Looking For History Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72582-1, ISBN: 0-375-72582-2 "From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write ..."
The Heart That Bleeds Latin America Now by AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75795-5, ISBN: 0-679-75795-3 "Bloc commander Martinez stated his preference for an Escobar corpse, the Fiscal
quickly called the statement "monstrous. ... ln I987, Enrique Parejo Gonza'lez, a
former Minister of Justice, had his jaw shot off in a failed assassination attempt in
..."
Dancing with Cuba(1st Edition) A Memoir of the Revolution by AlmaGuillermoprieto, Translator Esther Allen Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2004 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42093-1, ISBN: 0-375-42093-2 "A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970, a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscience.Alma Guillermoprieto—an award–winning journalist and arguably our most clear-eyed observer of Latin America—now turns her keen powers of observation onto her own, younger self. In this richly evocative chronicle, Guillermoprieto describes the remarkable, transforming journey she made as ..."
Pushkin's Children(1st Edition) Writing on Russia and Russians by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell, AlmaGuillermoprieto, Татьяна Толстая, Tatʹi︠a︡na Tolstai︠a︡ Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-12500-5, ISBN: 0-618-12500-0 "These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their ideas and observations, Tatyana Tolstaya s essays range across a variety of subjects. They move in one unique voice from Soviet women, classical Russian cooking, and the bliss of snow to the effect of Pushkin and freedom on Russia w ..."
Looking for History Dispatches from Latin America (Age of Unreason) by AlmaGuillermoprieto, Esther Allen Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Pantheon Books ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42094-8, ISBN: 0-375-42094-0
Samba(Reprint) by AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73256-3, ISBN: 0-679-73256-X "Samba To the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain--a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diamonds; prostitutes and pimps are queens and kings, and dancing skill is more prized than power. Full description"
Samba(1st Edition) The Making of Brazilian Carnival by AlmaGuillermoprieto Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 1990 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-57189-8, ISBN: 0-394-57189-4
Samba(Updated) by AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 245 Pages, Published 1991 by Bloomsbury Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-0801-4, ISBN: 0-7475-0801-1
Heart That Bleeds, The(1st Edition) Latin America Now by AlmaGuillermoprieto Hardcover, 345 Pages, Published 1994 by Alfred A Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-42884-8, ISBN: 0-679-42884-4
SAMBA. by Alma. Guillermoprieto Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1990 by Jonathan Cape, ISBN-13: 978-0-224-02795-3, ISBN: 0-224-02795-6 "This travel book explores the samba, with all its ritual, and through it presents a picture of Brazil."
The Heart That Bleeds Latin America Now by AlmaGuillermoprieto 368 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-78796-5, ISBN: 0-307-78796-6 "dreams, and in that profound cynicism and the need to dream once more lay
Fujimori's strength. As his campaign flourished, political analysts made much of
the fact that he was gaining ground despite the fact that he was a complete
unknown. It was the other way around, as the leftist Senator Javier Diez Canseco
discovered, with some pain. Diez Canseco, who, as a member of the Izquierda
Unida, or United Left, is part of the militant ..."
Pushkin's Children Writing on Russia and Russians by Tat'iana Tolstaia, Jamey Gambrell, AlmaGuillermoprieto Hardcover, Published 2003 by San Val ISBN-13: 978-1-4177-1689-0, ISBN: 1-4177-1689-4 "These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their ideas and observations, Tatyana Tolstaya"s essays range across a variety of subjects. They move in one unique voice from Soviet women, classical Russian cooking, and the bliss of snow to the effect of Pushkin and freedom on Russia w ..."
The Book of Lamentations(1st Edition) by Rosario Castellanos, Esther Allen, AlmaGuillermoprieto Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1996 by Marsilio Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-56886-038-1, ISBN: 1-56886-038-2 "In the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1930s, poverty, illiteracy, and rage contribute to an uprising among the descendants of the Mayan Indians"
The Book of Lamentations (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Rosario Castellanos, Esther Allen, AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1998 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118003-8, ISBN: 0-14-118003-X "Thirty years before the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas brought this little-known corner of Mexico to the world's notice, Mexican author Rosario Castellanos created a similar rebellion in her 1962 novel The Book of Lamentations. Castellanos has framed her story, which is set in the 1930s, around an actual 1860s uprising of Maya Indians against the Chiapan white ruling class. History and fiction meld seamlessly, mainly because conditions i ..."
Looking for History Dispatches from Latin America by AlmaGuillermoprieto Ebook, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-42667-3, ISBN: 0-307-42667-X "... /Ia/Jeru (rafter) crisis, and the final submission of socialist goals to the
pragmatic requirements of getting a full-throttle tourist economy under way. A
great many Cubans escaped from the island at that time or have negotiated their
departure in the years since, and a number of them are now writing interesting
books. Ale//1uri¢1.r de /m 50/z/rlc//.1 cu/;¢m0." by “Benigno" (Dariel Alarcon
Ramirez), is by far the most valuable ..."
Dancing with Cuba A Memoir of the Revolution by AlmaGuillermoprieto Ebook, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-42544-7, ISBN: 0-307-42544-4 "To this day, Elaine's \vork very much resembles her, it seems to me; it remains so
natural that one can't help being charmed, and it is filled with startling moments of
evocative pO\\'£'I'. One evening in Merce's dressing room another of my friends,
Graciela Figueroa, mentioned that she had started rehearsing with an odd
woman who had a funny name—Twyla Tharp— and she was seriously
considering reaching the conclusion that the woman ..."
La Habana en un espejo/ The Habana in a Mirror(1st Edition) by AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 293 Pages, Published 2005 by Grijalbo Mondadori Sa ISBN-13: 978-84-397-1185-8, ISBN: 84-397-1185-9 "Inscrita en la tradición de la obra de Joan Didion, V.S. Naipaul y Ryszard Kapuscinski, La Habana en un espejo aborda un tema político y social a través de la crónica, género por el que Alma Guillermoprieto, premiada en varias ocasiones, ha pasado a formar parte de los mejores escritores que tratan de cerca la situación actual de América Latina. Premio Princesa de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades 2018 En La Habana en un espejo Alm ..."
