The House on G Street : : A Cuban Family Saga / / Lisandro Pérez.
The unforgettable story of a family swept into history by the Cuban RevolutionIn The House on G Street, award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who fought against the Spanish for Cuban independence...
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Pérez, Lisandro, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The House on G Street : A Cuban Family Saga / Lisandro Pérez. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource : 46 b/w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Family Trees -- List of Figures -- Prologue -- 1. Fonts -- 2. Pérez -- 3. Four Brothers -- 4. Colonel Fonts -- 5. Amparo -- 6. Here Come the Americans -- 7. Chaparra -- 8. General Cigar -- 9. Oscar and Nancy -- 10. Life in Havana -- 11. Tano -- 12. Birth and Deaths -- 13. An (American) Childhood -- 14. New Year, New Cuba -- 15. Stamps -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Colonel Fonts’s Black Beans -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The unforgettable story of a family swept into history by the Cuban RevolutionIn The House on G Street, award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who fought against the Spanish for Cuban independence; a plantation owner who smuggles himself onto a ship; families divided by political loyalties; an orphaned boy from central Cuba who would go on to amass a fortune; a fatal love triangle; violence; and the ever-growing presence of the United States. It all culminates with an unforgettable portrait of a childhood spent in a world that was giving way to another one. The House on G Street is a unique depiction of one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century, told through generations of ancestors whose lives were shaped by dramatic historical forces.Pérez disentangles the complex history by following his family’s thread, imbuing political events with personal meaning. Their story begins with emigration to Cuba and follows the waning years of the colony. The end of Spanish rule gives way to pervasive American influence, and Perez’s family turned to New York as they adapted to the realities of a new republic with compromised sovereignty: privileged educations in boarding schools in Long Island and the Hudson Valley; a family business that took tobacco leaves from the soil of central Cuba to the docks of the East River; and grandparents who met and fell in love one night in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His family learned to navigate the uneasy relationship between the United States and Cuba, a relationship that was destined to end in dramatic fashion. More than sixty years later, the Cuban Revolution resists receding into the past, sparking continued discussion, debate, and reinterpretation. There is a great deal that is known about the broad historical conditions that inexorably pushed Cuba towards revolution, but much less is known about the people who lived that dramatic history.It is a story that, if not recovered and told, will be lost, for Pérez’s ancestors lived in a world that no longer exists, swept away by a tide of revolutionary change. The House on G Street follows a family whose lives mirror the history of a nation. The result is a compelling blend of memoir and in-depth historical research, a remarkable new view of the path to revolution as seen from the first person. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & Latino. bisacsh Castro. Fidel Castro. Latin American history. Latino. Latinx. President Batista. Waiting for Snow in Havana. academic books about cuba. academic books about cuban history. books about Latin American history. books about cuban history. books about the cuban revolution. cuba book. cuba. cuban family history. cuban history. cuban revolution. dictator. family history. family memoir. gift book. gifts for history lovers. havana. history book. history gifts. history of cuba. history. latinx books. latinx history. memoir about the cuban revolution. memoir. microhistory. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110751635 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479824656.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479824656 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479824656/original |
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