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By: Carlo Gebler
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: July 1988
Pages: 320
Categories: Travel
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780241122860
ISBN: 0241122864

Carlo Gebler's idiosyncratic analysis of Castro's socialist utopia written on the road in Cuba. The author sets out on an epic road trip in a bumpy Soviet-built Lada with his wife and young daughter. This odyssey through 1980s Cuba brings alive the warm-hearted people of Cuba and their willingness to make the visitor feel more than welcome.

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