Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi

by Irina Dumitrescu

Book Overview

A professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflected in the lyrics of rumba songs. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo discuss which book they would have never burned for fuel. A Romanian political prisoner writes her memoir in her head, a book no one will ever read. These are the arts of survival in times of crisis.Rumba Under Fire proposes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692655832
• ISBN13: 9780692655832
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"