Travel to Caribbean

Inside Cuba

Format: Hardcover
Author: Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez
ReleaseDate: 13 April, 2006
Publisher: Taschen
Rating:

Another view on Cuba
It gives you a little view inside a beautiful country. The book Inside Cuba is very different from others. Buildings, rooms, furniture everything is if you're going back into time. The regime of Castro stopped the time and you find this definitely back in this book. Almost all the pictures are of very good quality. The only negative point is the lack of political and historical information. But overall it is a good book to get another view on Cuba. .

Forgotten jewel splashed to pages
No supercover, do not search, and that begins the style. Great book. I do not agree, that book displays the misery, serves regime, and that is something expected to be admired by 'leftists'.

For, to me, not unpainted walls, natural (though, yes, not "rich" as it is often understood) people are disastrous. Omnipresent agression of commerce IS.

There is no doubt, those people are more beautiful on inside, than those, who are rather on outside.

And Cuba can be land of clean, magnificent dreams, architecture and interiors for people, by people, ideas, derived from ideals - let it be imperfect, I can understand that part, still book is about departure into the other world. And that journey is impressive. With that book in my mind, I tried to compare it against many others, that were on shelves. I returned home with this book today, definite highlight of Taschen.

If in doubt, open it, and you will feel quickly if it is for you, or not. Hopefully, it is.

A serial killer in the cover?
What a shame. A wonderful book, marred by efigy of serial killer in the back cover. The book is also peppered with photographs which are clearly the choice of an ignoramus who admires Castro and Guevara, without realizing that the beautiful ruins of Havana are their handiwork. Face it, Cuba was destroyed by the so called revolutionaries who terrorized a prosperous country and trasformed it into a Fourth World nightmare.
One can tell, that the selection of the photography depicting spies convicted in the United States, Castro and his brother Raul, and the international terrorist Che Guevara doesn't have anything to do with a very honest and informed text.
Gratuitiously, the editors try to ingratiate themselves with a left leaning public who finds rejoice in the misery of others. Nevermind that the back cover of the book will alienate many potential buyers who will not take a book into their houses if it has the anti-Cuban by excellence in its cover. Maybe Che Guevara is an appropiate image for a book on Buenos Aires, but I am afraid that the editors will get the backslash of the Argentinean public as well. Just compare the splendors of the Cuba of yesteryear with the present day mysery that looms over the whole country, I mean, over the part of the country that is reserved for Cubans, while the tourists benefit of a veritable apartheid.
Needless to say, Cubans leave their country every day, on fragile and unseaworthy rafts, to end up either being returned to Cuba, being eaten alives by sharks, or arriving in Florida -the luckier ones.
Those Cubans are young. They didn't know the Cuba of their grandparents. They only know the inferno created by Castro and his master executioner, Che Guevara. Will Taschen publish a book with the image of Hitler in the back cover? Of course not, Goering and Hitler are wounds still open in the German psyche. Instead, Castro and Guevara are really cool, according to the typical gospel of the liberal left.
By the way, many of the photos appeared to be recycled from Havana Style, another "Cuba is so quaint" book by Taschen.

Alberto Martinez
United States
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