An Innocent In Cuba
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An Innocent In Cuba
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Author : David McFadden
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2016-12-06
An Innocent In Cuba written by David McFadden and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-06 with Travel categories.
With An Innocent in Ireland (1995), David McFadden began his eccentric journeys to the heart of some of the world’s most unique island nations. Now McFadden rambles through the highs and lows of Cuba, home to cigars, Guantanamera, and of course Castro. The beautiful Caribbean landscape, along with Cuba’s rich history, culture, and uncertain future, lend themselves to the quirky eye and wry witticisms of our innocent Canadian guide. Poking into the nation’s many corners, McFadden offers a series of vignettes of the people, cities,villages, roads, and countryside of the island the author refers to as “the most famous little country in the world.” Warm and colourful, An Innocent in Cuba is a musical, sensuous, flirtatious, joyful tribute to the Cuban spirit in all its incarnations.
Innocent Betrayal
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Author : Silvia Abarrategui
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-08-31
Innocent Betrayal written by Silvia Abarrategui and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-31 with Fiction categories.
Based on some of the author's and her husband's personal experiences, INNOCENT BETRAYAL explores the hidden currents of Cuban counterintelligence during the 1970s and 80s in a novel that will sweep you from the daily calamities of Cuban reality, the opulence of Havana's diplomatic corps, to the ruthlessness of the Cuban secret police. Betrayal and love intertwine in the hostile ambiance of an island torn by revolution. INNOCENT BETRAYAL is a story of love overcoming betrayal.
Heart Of A Cuban
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Author : NJ. Perez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Heart Of A Cuban written by NJ. Perez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
The Blood Of Cuba
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Author : Marko Rosso
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2009-06
The Blood Of Cuba written by Marko Rosso and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06 with categories.
The Blood of Cuba is the true-to-life story of an innocent peasant boy, Cesar Mérez, growing up in post-revolutionary Cuba and his meteoric rise to the rank of colonel in the Cuban military. It chronicles the transformation Cesar undergoes due to the human brutality he witnesses while fighting for socialist causes in the mountains of Venezuela and the jungles of Angola. Eventually, through a twist of fate, he is exiled to the United States where his life is changed forever. At the same time, the story parallels three days in the troubled life of his unknown American half-brother, Dr. Thomas Savage. Tom is a physician living in Pennsylvania, who struggles with his inner demons and everyday family problems. Interwoven throughout the story are the lusts and loves of the two men. The reader will grow to both love and hate each of the brothers. Ultimately, after living divergent lives, fate brings the brothers together and, out of survival, they are forced to try and destroy each other.
Split Heart
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Author : Luis F Durán
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02
Split Heart written by Luis F Durán and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02 with categories.
SPLIT HEART may be the story of an immense number of Cuban children who had to live in exile. Returning to the homeland after several years in other countries can be depressing and shocking for them. Nobody wants to experience worse moments than the ones they have known until then, much less face the same things that made your family members flee from their past, almost always, against their will. However, the homeland always attracts and enchants.You will never feel bad when you meet again with friends and loved ones, with your roots and memories, although you know that you could find certain discomforts motivated by the economic and political system that you thought you had left behind.SPLIT HEART is the story of a Cuban boy who returns to his country. It is the endless comparison of those last eight years living freely in a democracy, with all the things that, despite having heard countless times from his mother, he refused to believe himself. It is the reconciliation with his truncated roots and the reality of knowing that your once beautiful and joyful land has been transformed into an unjust prison, where manipulation and oppression of the hated military caste and the high civil class who call themselves revolutionaries reign, while clinging to power with hardly offering solutions to their underprivileged people.Never before had a child to face so many questions and so many vicissitudes during a trip to see his grandparents. This story of Alejandro, can serve to many children who have had to abandon their homeland, their language and their identity because of an indolent regime that has trampled them for more than six decades. God bless all the innocent and suffering Cuban children.
Cuba In The American Imagination
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Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008-08-15
Cuba In The American Imagination written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-15 with History categories.
For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Perez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba.
Cuba My Twice Betrayed Generation
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Author : Ramon E. Machado
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-02-15
Cuba My Twice Betrayed Generation written by Ramon E. Machado and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Many books have already been written about the Cuban Revolution. Most of them have had an understandable focus on the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. This author too deals with these very topics as swell, but he presents that chapter of Cuban history through autobiographical stories and the personal anecdotes of the individuals who actually participated in these events. The author goes back to his earlier years when he was immersed in the events that shaped his future, what he thought the revolution would be, and how the events he observed forced him to reverse his conclusions. He writes how, as a young idealist, he is driven to abandon the very pro-revolutionary cause he once embraced and, instead, takes arms against the oppressive Castro regime. He shares his concerns and hesitations, describes his personal evolution. and recounts the joys and frustrations experienced while participating in guerrilla and other paramilitary activities that eventually evolved into the debacle known as the Bay of Pigs. The stories are all true, and some remain painful after more than fifty years. Additional anecdotes are presented by several of his war buddies. All of them share in the same ideological principles, underwent similar experiences, reached the same conclusions and made similar individual decisions. They truly represent their generation, which was propelled into action by its religious principles and moral convictions. Their stories are as diverse as the individuals who share them. They range from the tender words of a grandfather answering the school project questions of an innocent grandson, to the sometimes bitter words and memories of those who felt abandoned and betrayed on the beachhead of the Bay of Pigs, all the way to the life-altering experience of a man who, at the age of eighteen, endures a hellish night where he personally says goodbye to eight of his friends and witnesses their executions by firing squad, one after another, after another... The book is not just history. It is living history; it is lived history. It was not written by scholars that researched the events using books written by others. Instead, it was written by those whose actions created that history, those that were active participants in the events described and were lucky enough to survive these events. Ramon Machado was born and raised in Cuba, and was part of the liberation efforts recounted in this book from the time he was 19 until he was about 25 years old. He became a nuclear engineer and worked in that field until he "retired" in 2002. He then taught high school physics for another 10 years. Now that he is truly retired he finally found the time to sit down and write this book. He has five children and five grandchildren and lives with his wife, Connie, in Mississippi.
Cuba Russian Roulette Of The World
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Author : Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2013-01-02
Cuba Russian Roulette Of The World written by Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries took over Cuba in 1958, they promised welfare and prosperity to the Cuban people. Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmols father, Leonardo, supported the revolution sopenly that he was often targeted by Gen. Fulgencio Batistas regime. Like so many others, hed been deceived to believe that Castro could be just like a certain artist depicted hima resurrected Christ. Following in his Fathers footsteps, Julio Antonio also waged a war for freedom, becoming a military leader at twelve years old. Castro, impressed with the youths maturity and eloquence, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Young Commandos, personally handing him a gun. But when Julio Antonio realized that the revolution had serious shortcomings, he converted himself into a spy and began stealing secrets from the regime. When he takes the first pictures of the Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, the world almost goes to war. Join a freedom fighter who barely escaped from the island as he recalls the early days of the revolution and stealing secrets in Cuba: Russian Roulette of the World.
An Innocent In Ireland
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Author : David McFadden
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2016-12-06
An Innocent In Ireland written by David McFadden and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-06 with Travel categories.
When writer David McFadden sets out on a tour of Ireland, he is determined to so do in a relatively innocent state. Using as a guide only In Search of Ireland, a 1930 title by travel writer H. V. Morton, he plans to follow the same route, to try to determine how things have changed and how they have remained the same. This he proceeds to do – at least at first. But soon he is wandering more and more erratically around the country, poking into any corner and musing over any sight that takes his fancy – from a cozy guest house in Kilcullen to the legendary Hill of Tara, from the south-coast pub run by twin sisters to the windswept reaches of the Ballaghbeama Gap. And increasingly he is drawn to the prehistoric monuments of ancient Ireland. As he goes, he records his very personal impressions in a clear-eyed and wryly humorous way. Wisely, McFadden also lets the many characters he meets speak for themselves; he loves a good chat and he gives ample space to the various loquacious barmen, shopkeepers, hoteliers, and passersby along the way. And of all the eccentric and appealing characters that he encounters, one of the most intriguing is his travelling companion, the mysterious Spanish chambermaid and poet Lourdes Brasil. Amusing, quirky, compassionate but unsentimental, An Innocent in Ireland is a treat for any armchair traveller.
Prose Fiction Of The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Seymour Menton
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-05-23
Prose Fiction Of The Cuban Revolution written by Seymour Menton and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution. Menton establishes four periods—1959–1960, 1961–1965,1966–1970, and 1971–1973—that reflect the changing policies of the revolutionary government toward the arts. Using these periods as a chronological guideline, he defines four distinct literary generations, records the facts about their works, establishes coordinates, and formulates a system of literary and historical classification. He then makes an aesthetic analysis of the best of Cuban fiction, emphasizing the novels of major writers, including Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces, and José Lezama Lima's Paradiso. He also discusses the works of a large number of lesser-known writers, which must be considered in arriving at an accurate historical tableau. Menton's exploration of the short story combines a thematic and stylistic analysis of nineteen anthologies with a close study of six authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Calvert Casey, Humberto Arenal, Antonio Benítez, Jesús Díaz Rodríguez, and Norberto Fuentes. Several chapters are devoted to the increasing number of novels and short stories written by Cuban exiles as well as to the eighteen novels and one short story written about the Revolution by non-Cubans, such as Julio Cortázar, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Luisa Josefina Hernández, and Pedro Juan Soto. In studying literary works to reveal the intrinsic consciousness of a historical period, Menton presents not only his own views but also those of Cuban literary critics. In addition, he clarifies the various changes in the official attitude toward literature and the arts in Cuba, using the revolutionary processes of several other countries as comparative examples.