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Tom Miller is one of our best non-fiction writers

San Francisco Chronicle

PRAISE FORTRADINGWITH THE ENEMY

May just be the best travel book about Cuba ever written.

Lonely Planet, Cuba

Brings a couple of qualities to the subject that have been in short supply in Cuba in past yearscompassion and humor ... desultory charm and sympathy for the underdog.

Washington Post Book World

Few Americans know Cuba as well as Tom Miller does. His Trading with the Enemy... is required reading for anyone who proposes to visitor even talk aboutCuba today.

The Readers Companion to Cuba

The perspective of a regular guy hanging out with regular guys, a friendly innocent abroad giving us the view from the street ... Tom Miller has caught the letter, if not the spirit, of Cuba today.

PICO IYER, Los Angeles Times

It is a welcome change of pace to read a book that does not tell readers what to think about Cubas political system, and Trading with the Enemy is a sensitive introduction to a country with a rich past and complex present.

Miami Herald

A fabulous travelogue ... Thoughtful, engaging, insightful, compassionate, and told in rich narrative.

Moon Handooks, Cuba

Cuba, described with humor, integrity, and insight ... gracefully written, sympathetic and clear-eyed.

Kirkus Reviews

A superb travel book ... I feel that Ive seen the real Cuba ... a 3-D portrait of an unforgettable place at an unforgettable time.

Top Ten Books of the Year, ED WARD, Austin Chronicle

One of the bona fide treats of this literary season ... We should be entirely grateful to Miller for his extraordinarily detailed and sympathetic account of Cuba today.

JAY PARINI, Diversion

Never before has Cuba seemed so close, so warm, so accessible ... Cuba close up, without the political rant. This is a touching and perceptive book.

Virginia Quarterly Review

{Miller} has captured the public mood during one of the most turbulent times in the islands history.

Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinal

A good-natured, evenhanded account of life in that island nation, as seen by a thoughtful observer ... the sights, sounds, and smells of a believable Cuba ... marvelously readable ... a vibrant picture of the overall quality of life under conditions of hardship.

Islands

This decades most insightful American travelogue of recent Cuban culture and society.

Phoenix New Times

The most comprehensive and least biased book on the country.

Hemispheres

A wonderful book about Cuba.

NPRs Talk of the Nation

This even-handed and affectionate account of the country and its people makes an entertaining armchair substitute for a visit.

Publishers Weekly

Tom Millers book ought to be required reading.

BILL LITTLEFIELD, NPRs Morning Edition

An excellent book about Cuba.

PAUL HARVEY

{Miller} has carved out a wanderlust niche among contemporary authors.

Arizona Republic

I thoroughly enjoyed it! What fun to visit Cuba again with you as the guide. You really captured the soul of the place.

CRISTINA GARCI, author of Dreaming in Cuban

Tom Millers book is written with wit and grace and is chock full of information that few, if any, know about Cuba. A wonderful book.

JIM HARRISON

ALSO BY TOM MILLER

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Lessons in Language and Life (ed.)

Jack Rubys Kitchen Sink

Travelers Tales: Cuba (ed.)

Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader (ed.)

The Assassination Please Almanac

Arizona: The Land and the People (ed.)

The Interstate Gourmet: Texas and the Southwest (co-author)

Dedicated to the memory of
MORITZ THOMSEN
1915-1991

Introduction to the Paperback Edition

Nineteen months of poor health did to Fidel Castro what forty-nine years of American foreign policy couldnt. In early 2008 he decided to call it quits and let his kid brother take over. Oh, he rambles on in the occasional newspaper column, but as the nations editor-in-chief, hes guaranteed his every word will be published. His business card still says FIRST SECRETARY, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA, but hes had to add RET. after his myriad other titles. Drawing on the name of a long-ago childrens show, Cubans can now say, Ta Tata cuenta cuentosroughly, there goes gramps, telling stories again.

... no evidence of his death was final, Castro intimate Gabriel Garcia Mrquez wrote of the grotesque, ageless dictator in The Autumn of the Patriarch, because there was always another truth behind the truth. The layers of truths behind Fidel Castros forty-nine-year runhe lasted seven years longer than the off-Broadway hit The Fantasticksare as impenetrable as its deceits. Hasta la victoria siempre! was his pal Che Guevaras slogan, Ever forward to victory! Fidel has achieved a victory of sorts by fading away not with his boots on, rather his hospital slippers. He was a stationary target for the United States, whose every Cuba policy initiative, analysis, and posture since 1959 has not only failed, but invigorated Castro and befuddled his countrymen.

I learned of an internationally acclaimed Cuban artist in his early forties who said that what he missed most about Fidel was his voice. It had been the soundtrack of his life, following him everywhere. Yet since late July 2006, Fidel had not only not appeared in public, but the timbre of his speechits crescendo and diminuendo as he bridged his boney fingers, its expansion and contraction as he arched a bushy eyebrowhad not once settled on Cuban ears. And, in the shadow of the Cuban revolutions golden anniversary, this fellow missed Fidel Castros familiar speaking voice most of all.

I never met Castro the elder, though I saw him up close on two ceremonial occasions. Once, during the Special Period in a Time of Peacethe euphemism for the countrys economic free fall in the early 1990sa major American magazine assigned me an article on Cuba. In Havana, I put in the obligatory request to interview Fidel, and was surprised to hear a few days later that there was a distinct possibility hed see me. Part of my preparation involved asking someone who knew Fidel well if the

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