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Against all hope : a memoir of life in Castro's gulag / translated by Andrew Hurley.
Van Pelt Library HV9557.5.V35 A3813 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valladares, Armando.
- Standardized Title:
- Contra toda esperanza. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Valladares, Armando.
- Political prisoners--Cuba--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1959-.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Encounter Books, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his deep Christian faith kept him from abandoning hope during the most evil treatment.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Spain: Plaza & Janes, 1985.
- ISBN:
- 1893554198
- OCLC:
- 48671078
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