Child of the Revolution: Growing up in Castro's Cuba by Luis M. Garcia
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- Pub. Date: April 2007
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited
- Format: Paperback, 248pp
- ISBN-13: 9781741148527
- ISBN: 1741148529
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Compelling and vivid, this memoir presents an intimate portrait of Castro’s Cuba through a wide-eyed and eager boy growing up in the 1960s. At the naïve age of 10, Luis M. Garcia, embarrassed by his anti-revolutionary parents, pledges his allegiance to Lenin, Marx, and the mythical Che Guevara, knowing that this is the only path to become a better revolutionary—and to get out of school early. Told with a detailed intimacy and a gentle humor that conveys the richness and warmth of Cuban life, this memoir illuminates the uncertainty, fear, and political force that tore families apart as Castro sought to destroy capitalism and establish Cuba as a world superpower.
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Biography
Luis M. Garcia has written for major publications as a business, finance, and political journalist. He has also served as a political advisor. He is currently a partner at a major corporate communications firm. He grew up in Cuba.
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January 31, 2007: Cuban-Australian journalist Luis Garcia takes us back to Banes, the small town where he was born in July 1959, just six months after Fidel Castro came to power. And he does so from the perspective of a 10 or 11 year old child who wants to be a good revolutionary but is constantly embarrassed by his less-than-committed gusano parents. With warmth and humor and a beatifully innocent writing style, we witness the Castro revolution changing everything - from the names of streets to the introduction of neighbourhood spies - until the Garcia family decides they have had enough and apply to leave for Madrid. But there is no bitterness in the telling. On the contrary - Garcia paints a picture so vivid, so evocative I swear you will smell the aroma of a good Cuban cigar, or taste the salty breeze off the Caribbean in your tongue. A must read.
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