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Breathe: Stories from Cuba

`Breathe` is a collection that explores the heart of Fidel Castro-era Cuba; an outsider`s look that is balanced by a weight of empathy to illuminate truths that lie couched between the island`s propaganda and the Western media`s portrayal. Characters from Europe and the USA in `Swimming`, `Taxi` and `Sabbatical` seem to want to hold on to the indulgences that their countries offer them, while praising Cubans for the more abstemious lives they lead and seeking to sample what the locals experience; in `Siempre Luchando`, `I Never See Them Cry` and `The Party`, romantic liaisons strengthen or buckle under the strain of the minute exploitations that result from the assumptions one makes about the other; the seedy sexual aggression of `Luca`s Trip to Havana` is undercut by the subtle yet intense lust of `Breathe`; while `Leaving Cuba`, with its closing image of Havana`s night sky, is as eloquently balanced a tale of the lives of everyday Cubans as you will read in a long while – whichever path one takes, something is lost.As Aida Bahr, winner of Cuba`s Premio de la Critica Literaria says, “relying more on subtleties than on drama, [Segal] portrays the tensions and struggles, but also the joy and warmth, that fill Cubans` lives.”

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