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Cuba’s Geopolitical Game of the Century

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2017 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZECuba is on the brink of seismic change – but in the age of post-Fidel, post-Obama and post-truth, the country’s future hangs in the balance as it finds itself facing a decisive endgame moment with the new US president. In this lucid reflection on Cuba’s decades-long stalemate with the US, Rey maps out the playing field and shows how ... Read more

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2017 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZECuba is on the brink of seismic change – but in the age of post-Fidel, post-Obama and post-truth, the country’s future hangs in the balance as it finds itself facing a decisive endgame moment with the new US president. In this lucid reflection on Cuba’s decades-long stalemate with the US, Rey maps out the playing field and shows how
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

by Giles Tremlett ...

The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting". At this charged moment, ... Read more

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The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting". At this charged moment,
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The Accidental President of Brazil

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with ... Read more

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Trivia-On-Books)

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Trivia-on-Book: One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezTake the challenge and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!You may have read the book, but not have liked it.You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book ... ... Read more

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Trivia-on-Book: One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezTake the challenge and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!You may have read the book, but not have liked it.You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book ...
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The Struggle for Catalonia

Rebel Politics in Spain

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Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were very serious about their demands. On the back of this show of force, Catalonia's governing politicians turned secessionist ... Read more

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Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were very serious about their demands. On the back of this show of force, Catalonia's governing politicians turned secessionist
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Book Analysis)

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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Shadow of the Wind with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, which tells the story of the young and idealistic Daniel and the mysterious novel he finds in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. He is soon plunged into the decades-old mystery surrounding the ... Read more

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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Shadow of the Wind with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, which tells the story of the young and idealistic Daniel and the mysterious novel he finds in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. He is soon plunged into the decades-old mystery surrounding the
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Trivia-on-Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MárquezTake the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends!One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the best work of one of the most accomplished authors, Gabriel García Márquez, and is considered to be one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. The story begins in a remote jungle of the Colombian ... Read more

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Trivia-on-Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MárquezTake the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends!One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the best work of one of the most accomplished authors, Gabriel García Márquez, and is considered to be one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. The story begins in a remote jungle of the Colombian
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Spain and Peace

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Fast's powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain's fight for freedom from governmental oppressionHoward Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to give the ... Read more

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Fast's powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain's fight for freedom from governmental oppressionHoward Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to give the
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The Sorrows of Mexico

by Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernández, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Sergio González Rodríguez, Marcela Turati, Emiliano Ruiz Parra, Elena Poniatowska ...

Translated by Samantha Schnee, Jennifer Adcock, Catherine Mansfield ...

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, t****his is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows.Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN PromotesVeering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ... Read more

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With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, t****his is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows.Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN PromotesVeering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last
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The Notebook

by Jose Saramago, Umberto Eco ...

Translated by Amanda Hopkinson, Daniel Hahn ...

Beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, The Notebook evokes life in Saramago’s beloved Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and offers meditations on the author’s favorite writers. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times. Characteristically critical and ... Read more

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Beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, The Notebook evokes life in Saramago’s beloved Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and offers meditations on the author’s favorite writers. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times. Characteristically critical and
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The Jaguar Smile

A Nicaraguan Journey

by Salman Rushdie ...

“I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice.” So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the ... Read more

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“I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice.” So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the
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Latin America

by Carlos Fuentes ...

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A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand.Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end ... Read more

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A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand.Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end
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