"Orwell in Cuba: How '1984' Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight" is a personal account of contemporary Cuba at a pivotal point in its history, with the Castro brothers passing power on to a new generation. We discover Cuba through the adventures, inquiries, and encounters of a Canadian journalist and writer trying to make sense of the current climate in Cuba and of how Cubans feel about the past, present, and future of their island. "Orwell in Cuba" is also akin to a detective story, as the author investigates how and why a state-run publishing house came to release a new translation of George Orwell's iconic anti-totalitarian novel "Nineteen-Eighty-Four," formerly taboo, in the year 2016. These two quests are intertwined in the book, giving the reader an unusual experience: that of following a suspenseful trail while at the same time becoming increasingly familiar with the Cuban people's relationship to the regime, and absorbing a wealth of information as to how they succeed in coping with the island's often challenging living conditions.

Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight

Literature & Fiction

Lavoie, Frédérick

History & Criticism

Talonbooks

Literary Nonfiction. How can a country at peace suddenly be plunged into war? What compels hitherto peaceable citizens to take up arms and kill one another? In FOR WANT OF A FIR TREE: UKRAINE UNDONE, Frédérick Lavoie tells Artyom, a four-year-old child he saw lying in his little blue coffin on a January afternoon in 2015, about the sequence of events that led to his death. In doing so, and in travelling the country from one side to the other, talking to people from all walks of life in both camps, Lavoie tells a classic story of a land drawn into conflict through misadventure, misjudgment, mistrust, and a legacy of ancient historical resentments with a tenacious hold on their populations. It is a cautionary tale whose truths and whose lessons resonate far beyond these specific events, these particular borders.

For Want of a Fir Tree: Ukraine Undone

Linda Leith Publishing

À coups d’allers simples, le journaliste québécois Frédérick Lavoie parcourt le monde et le questionne. Le reporter – voyageur curieux et insatiable – nous emmène sur les routes de la « Post-Soviétie », ensemble géopolitique balloté entre Europe et Asie, uni par un passé commun et un avenir incertain. Entre les espoirs révolutionnaires de jeunes Biélorusses dans une prison de Minsk, le discours haineux de néo-nazis à Vladivostok, les malheurs d’une pauvre babouchka ouzbèke dans la dictature turkmène et les rêves de grandeur d’une chef de village tchétchène, il nous livre quelques moments de la vie des ex-Soviétiques qu’il a côtoyés lors de ses reportages aux quatre coins de l’empire déchu. Allers simples dévoile des réalités d’habitude inaccessibles.

Allers simples

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

La Peuplade

Ukraine à fragmentation

Travel

Europe

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