Dancing with Cuba(Reprint) A Memoir of the Revolution von AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 304 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von 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 ..."
The Heart That Bleeds(Reprint) Latin America Now von AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 368 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1995 von 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
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"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 ..."
"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 ..."
Samba(Updated) von AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 245 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von Bloomsbury Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-0801-4, ISBN: 0-7475-0801-1
"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 ..."
Looking for History Dispatches from Latin America (Age of Unreason) von AlmaGuillermoprieto, Esther Allen Hardcover, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Pantheon Books ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42094-8, ISBN: 0-375-42094-0
Samba(Reprint) von AlmaGuillermoprieto Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von 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"
Heart That Bleeds, The(1st Edition) Latin America Now von AlmaGuillermoprieto Hardcover, 345 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1994 von Alfred A Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-42884-8, ISBN: 0-679-42884-4
SAMBA. von Alma. Guillermoprieto Hardcover, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1990 von 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."
Havanna im Spiegel(1st Edition) eine Erinnerung an die Revolution., von AlmaGuillermoprieto, Matthias Wolf Hardcover, 400 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2012 von Berenberg Verlag Ungekürzte Ausgabe ISBN-13: 978-3-937834-33-7, ISBN: 3-937834-33-8
"1970 verließ die junge Mexikanerin Alma Guillermoprieto New York, um in Havanna als Dozentin an der Staatlichen Ballettschule zu lehren. Fast ein Jahr lang arbeitete sie in Studios ohne Spiegel. Ihre schlecht ausgebildeten, aber vor Ehrgeiz glühenden Schüler trainierten ohne dieses als individualistisch verschrieene Hilfsmittel. Und doch fand die junge Frau inmitten chronischen Mangels und revolutionärem Durcheinander ein Volk von begei ..."
"Una magnífica selección de reportajes de Alma Guillermoprieto El conflicto civil en El Salvador, la crisis de Granada, la masacre del Mozote, el éxito internacional del grupo adolescente latinoamericano Menudo, la proliferación de sectas y religiones en Río de Janeiro o la lucha entre el gobierno peruano y Sendero Luminoso son solo algunos de los temas que trata Alma Guillermoprieto en sus legendarias crónicas. Publicadas entre 1981 y 2 ..."
"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 ..."
"72migrantes nació en medio de la angustia que surgió en tantos intelectuales, escritores, músicos y reporteros mexicanos con la noticia de la masacre ocurrida en el norte del estado de Tamaulipas, en agosto de 2010. En un país de migrantes, las víctimas -extranjeras todas- fueron asesinadas por personas que aún no han sido identificadas y en circunstancias que siguen siendo un misterio; pero que sabemos son mexicanas. Al horror del crim ..."
"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 ..."