“On the streets of Havana”, writes journalist Silvana Paternostro in the book’s foreword, “even the simplest tasks have become a struggle, and the search for basic goods has become so urgent that everyday Spanish has given way to a vocabulary of crisis. The verbs for “to find”, “to get”, and even “to have” have merged together into one: “resolver” meaning “to resolve” or, better yet, “to solve”. (Photo by Tria Giovan/The Guardian)
