{"product_id":"cuba-the-land-of-miracles-9780349119670","title":"Cuba The Land Of Miracles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, and his search for the real Cuba inevitably becomes a search for Fidel Castro too. Before meeting his quarry, Smith travels extensively through the ''land of miracles'' in an old American automobile. His highly-personalised account features a bloody initiation into a voodoo-like cult, dining on giant rat, and checking into the Love Hotel. And he goes on manoeuvres in the Everglades with armed, but not especially competent, Cuban exiles dreaming of a second Bay of Pigs. With disarming wit and considerable insight, Stephen Smith investigates a country where communism and voodoo coexist, and where the influence of its leader of forty years continues to throw a long shadow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntertaining ... the best guide to this beautiful, bedevilled island. Unfailingly well written * SUNDAY TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating ... genuinely brilliant * Jon Snow, OBSERVER *\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading * Norman Lewis *\u003cbr\u003e{Stephen Smith ) is the best sort of reporter; detached, ironic, yet well-versed on the terrain he's exploring ... a compelling portrait of a society on the verge of an ideological breakdown * Douglas Kennedy, INDEPENDENT *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401851445591,"sku":"9780349119670","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349119670.jpg?v=1730478689","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cuba-the-land-of-miracles-9780349119670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}