Andrew J. Rodriguez

Adios, Havana

A Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

Havana . . . lilting rumbas, café con leche, sultry sea breezes. Sparkling white beaches by day, scintillating nightclubs after dark. This sophisticated, international capital was the crown jewel of an island paradise-until the idealism that fed the Cuban Revolution yielded a nightmare of soul-crushing dictatorship. Adios, Havana is a true account of romance and peril, adventure and patriotism. Fueled by love-love of family, of country, and of each other-a young couple must face the most wrenching of choices: remain in the country they cherish, lose the wealth and position their families strove for generations to attain, and watch their children grow up impoverished under a terrifying regime; or risk escaping with no money or possessions and leave behind all they have ever known to begin a new life in a strange land. A legacy to future generations, this memoir is intended to remind readers of the fragility of freedom . . . to describe the disintegration of a prosperous civilized society and offer counsel on how to prevent a similar catastrophe from happening in America . . . and to show how and why penniless refugees flourish in the land of the free-why anyone who resists oppression would be driven to tell his beloved homeland, Adios.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781598000481
• ISBN-10: 1598000489
• Artikelnr.: 21295766