Summary of the book:
Through the integration in a Cuban family, the author could live the daily realities of a grandmother who educates her two grandchildren far away from the beaches with white sand typical for the ads of suntan oil. The work in the tobacco fields, the persistence’s of the revolutionary engagements and the confrontation with globalization form the frame of a country life where gladness and struggle for life succeed at the rhythm of the waves of the Antillean see.
In the mid of the fraternal castriste transition and facing the implosion of the neo-liberal system, this narrative allows to observe how much, in Cuba, the necessary solidarity still constitutes an important leverage of common life, where neither extreme poverty nor opulence disturb social cohesion. Exploit any longer labor and environment in order to accomplish the paradigm’s of occidental society or be content with this community based life, indeed frugal, but full of cheerfulness and vitality, with as bonus a long life expectancy, this is the question that rises as a result of this testimony and what from the author stresses the terms ad the end of the book.
