"LA PRIMERA CRNICA CUBANA EN LA NUEVA ERA SIN FIDEL. El triunfo en el 59 de la Revoluci̤n y el ascenso de Fidel Castro al poder cambiaron la vida de millones de cubanos, pero eso fue s̤lo el principio del complejo periplo de la isla durante el ͠ltimo medio siglo: un embargo cortes̕a de los Estados Unidos, la presencia patriarcal de la Uni̤n Sovǐtica, el Periodo Especial y una serie de acontecimientos pol̕ticos y sociales que culminaron en noviembre de 2016 con un giro definitivo de la Historia: la muerte de Fidel. Los ojos del mundo estaban puestos en Cuba, expectantes de su destino ya sin el liderazgo (o el yugo) de una de las figuras m̀s emblem̀ticas odiada por unos e idolatrada por otros de nuestro siglo. En Cuba sin Fidel, Julio Pat̀n realiza un viaje de descubrimiento doble: por una parte, la cr̤nica de c̤mo vivi̤ esos primeros meses de orfandad una poblaci̤n que se abr̕a paso, poco a poco o en tropel, hacia una modernidad que se conoc̕a a medias y se entend̕a casi nada; por otra, el aǹlisis cr̕tico y sin maquillaje de una realidad que el filtro del sentimiento revolucionario no siempre permite apreciar en su verdadera dimensi̤n. Del coautor de M̌xico Bizarro.- provided by publisher. THE FIRST CUBAN CHRONICLE IN THE NEW ERA WITHOUT FIDEL. The triumph in the 59th of the Revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro to power changed the lives of millions of Cubans, but that was only the beginning of the complex journey of the island during the last half century: an embargo courtesy of the United States, the patriarchal presence of the Soviet Union, the Special Period and a series of political and social events that culminated in November 2016 with a definitive turn of history: the death of Fidel. The eyes of the world were placed in Cuba, expectant of their destiny already without the leadership (or the yoke) of one of the most emblematic figures - hated by some and idolized by others - of our century. In Cuba without Fidel, Julio Patán makes a trip of double discovery: on the one hand, the chronicle of how he lived those first months of orphanage a population that made its way, little by little or in droves, towards a modernity that was half known and almost nothing was understood; on the other hand, the critical analysis without makeup of a reality that the filter of revolutionary feeling does not always allow to appreciate in its true dimension.
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