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Informationen zum Autor Lea Aschkenas has written book reviews and articles for the Washington Post Book World, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, salon.com , and Ms. Her travel writing has been published in Outside and the San Francisco Bay Guardian and her poetry has appeared in the Maryland Poetry Review and Beside the Sleeping Maiden: Poets of Marin . Aschkenas works at a public library and teaches poetry at public schools. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Alfredo. Klappentext This poignant and passionate travel memoir is about falling in love with a country and one of its compatriots. Aschkenas never strays from her acute awareness that there is no way to separate her foreignness (intensified by U.S.-Cuba relations) from the complex mix of emotions--devotion and rejection! enrapture and apprehension--that she develops toward Cuba. Vorwort This triumphant love story captures a beautiful and intangible sense of sadness and admiration for the country of Cuba and for its people Zusammenfassung This triumphant love story captures a beautiful and intangible sense of sadness and admiration for the country of Cuba and for its people
