Cuba
By Ada Ferrer
- Genre
- History, Society & Current Affairs
- Publisher
- Scribner (Simon & Schuster)
- Publication year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9781501154553
Cuba: An American History is a work of history by the Cuban-born scholar Ada Ferrer, published by Scribner in September 2021. It narrates five centuries of Cuban history and the island's relationship with the United States. It won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times...
Havana-born historian Ada Ferrer opens Cuba with her own birth, between the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis, and that intimacy runs through a sweeping five-century history of an island bound to the United States by proximity, sugar, empire and revolution. From Columbus to Castro to the thaw and freeze of recent decades, Ferrer narrates Cuba's story on its own terms while never losing sight of the American shadow across it. She is especially sharp on how often the US has shaped Cuban destinies while forgetting it did so. intendle recommends it as the definitive one-volume history for our moment - authoritative, humane and unusually readable for a book of its scope. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, it corrects an amnesia that runs in both directions. A masterclass in how to hold a nation's whole history in a single, graceful narrative.