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Cultural Exchange In Cuba

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In Cuba you German Shepherd is a collection for the first time hypnotic tales linked to attempts on immigrants to make a new life in America, by award-winning vehicle pay the Cuban-American Ana Menendez hand. The lush, storyteller generous, Menendez summons effort major up and topics feature in short stories: the hopes and disappointments of the post-Castro Cuba Revolution, comfort and terror of Havana in all its beauty and sadness, and cultural ties that bind the family, and the contrast between people's dreams and reality. Rarely author of the acquired substantially sting and regret for life caught in the weather …show more content…

His words are the punch line to one of the countless jokes says to his comrades in Domino Park in Miami. A group of Cuban immigrants and the Dominican gathered regularly, ignoring most of the tourists who come to gape at the older colored men playing dominoes only Maximo victims feel, as if the spectators and reduce life and culture, and treated like an animal in a zoo. Mixed feelings of pride and frustration that comes with adapting to American society are the common threads in this group moves by the Cuban-American, and the author's award-winning vehicle paid by

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