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Child of the revolution : growing up in Castro's Cuba / Luis M. Garcia.
LIBRA F1788.22.G38 A3 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garcia, Luis M., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garcia, Luis M., 1959---Childhood and youth.
- Garcia, Luis M.
- Garcia, Luis M., 1959---Family.
- Garcia, Luis M., 1959-.
- Cubans.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Children.
- Social conditions.
- Families.
- Cuba--History--1959-1990--Biography.
- Cuba.
- Children--Cuba--Biography.
- Children--Cuba--Social conditions--20th century.
- Cuba--Social conditions--1959-1990.
- Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959--Social aspects.
- Banes (Holguín, Cuba)--Biography.
- Banes (Holguín, Cuba).
- Cubans--Australia--Biography.
- Immigrants--Australia--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2006.
- Summary:
- Cuba, a land of cigars, hot nights, sultry music and romantic revolutionary heroes. But what was it really like to live in this tropical paradise under Fidel Castro? With an evocative wide-eyed innocence, Luis M. Garcia takes us back to his Cuban childhood and his parents' dreams of escape.
- Child of the Revolution is a story about growing up in an extraordinary place at an extraordinary time, as the Cold War superpowers prepared to go to war over nuclear missiles installed on the tiny Caribbean island. It's a story set in a world of uncertainty and revolutionary upheaval, where a 10-year-old has to swear allegiance to Lenin, Marx and the mythical Che Guevara, with no idea of what it all means, except this is the only way to become a 'better revolutionary' - and get out of school early. It is also the story of brothers and sisters torn apart by politics and how a Cuban teenager and his family end up - by sheer accident - on the other side of the world. Warm, generous and gently amusing, Child of the Revolution stirs the heart and brings music to the soul.
- Contents:
- 1 Don't Look Back... 1
- 2 In a Time of Revolution 6
- 3 Viva Cuba Socialista! 19
- 4 Missiles in Paradise 27
- 5 Good Little Communists 38
- 6 A Carnival and a Funeral 47
- 7 La Curandera 55
- 8 All in the Family 60
- 9 Rationing Tales 75
- 10 Kings of Havana 82
- 11 Opium of the Masses 90
- 12 Che Lives! 103
- 13 Giant Pineapples and Other Socialist Miracles 109
- 14 In Every Barrio, Revolution 118
- 15 Those Bulgarian Girls 129
- 16 The Great Revolutionary Offensive 134
- 17 A Miliciano at the Door 150
- 18 With Fidel in the Sugarcane Fields 158
- 19 No more Christmas for you! 173
- 20 We Want to be Like Che! 186
- 21 The Magical Telegram 199
- 22 Havana, Mi Amor 207
- 23 Adios, Cuba 220
- 24 In a Plane of Plenty 229.
- ISBN:
- 1741148529
- 9781741148527
- OCLC:
- 71583928
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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