Waiting for Fidel - Softcover

Hunt, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395868866 ISBN 13: 9780395868867

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1998

Synopsis

Details the author's travels in Cuba and his quest for the elusive dictator, Fidel Castro

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Review:

When Fidel Castro was barred from the U.N. 50th-anniversary parties and fun, Christopher Hunt's curiosity was piqued. He decided to spend a winter in Cuba, avoid New York's icy misery, practice his Spanish, absorb some Cuban culture, and maybe even meet Fidel. In the time-honored tradition of great travelogues, everything goes wrong and everything goes right. He finds wonderful people while trying to meet Castro (including the man who played Grandpa Munster on the 1960s television show, The Munsters), and sees a lot of Cuba, from Havana alleys to resort beaches to the mountains that sheltered Castro and his band of rebels years ago. Some questions get resolved, while unanswerable Cuban quandaries take their place, such as how Cubans balance fear, hunger, passion, and hope in a country of food shortages, endless lines, and police surveillance. Hunt's finely rendered account of four months in Cuba whets the appetite for more about Cuba and more penned by Hunt.

About the Author:

Christopher Hunt survived a childhood in Beirut and New York City and went on to the London School of Economics and the staff of the Economist. Now a freelance writer, he lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0395868866
• ISBN 13: 9780395868867
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259