Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana - Stephanie Elizondo Griest - Bücher - Random House USA Inc - 9780812967609 - 9. März 2004
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Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

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Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana

Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement?commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the ?Evil Empire.?

In Around the Bloc, Griest relates her experiences as a volunteer at a children?s shelter in Moscow, a propaganda polisher at the office of the Chinese Communist Party?s English-language mouthpiece in Beijing, and a belly dancer among the rumba queens of Havana. She falls in love with an ex-soldier who narrowly avoided radiation cleanup duties at Chernobyl, hangs out with Cuban hip-hop artists, and comes to difficult realizations about the meaning of democracy.

is the absorbing story of a young journalist driven by a desire to witness the effects of Communism. Along the way, she learns the Russian mathematical equation for buying dinner-party vodka (one bottle per guest, plus an extra), stumbles upon Beijing?s underground gay scene, marches with 100,000 mothers demanding Elián González?s return to Cuba, and gains a new appreciation for the Mexican culture she left behind.


416 pages, Illustrations, unspecified

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 9. März 2004
ISBN13 9780812967609
Verlag Random House USA Inc
Seitenanzahl 416
Maße 132 × 201 × 22 mm   ·   362 g
Sprache Englisch  

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