Can I read A Cuban story on EtoBox?

A Cuban story by Marcia Del Mar is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Cuban story about?

Available once again, this is considered the first published book on the Cuban-American refugee experience. When Marcia Del Mar was thirteen years old she and her mother fled the horror of Fidel Castro. Her father stayed behind, hoping to preserve some of the dignity of their past life, waiting for Castro to fall. Only when he discovered that he was in imminent danger of being imprisoned for his revolutionary activities did he flee Cuba and join his family in "Little Havana," the Cuban ghetto in Miami, Florida. The book is a moving and personal recollection of life as it began to spoil in Cuba. The author describes the euphoria which swept the country when Castro, "the Savior," first came to power and how that euphoria became putrid as the people saw even the most basic of freedoms denied. In a simple and surprisingly straightforward style, the atrocities and the inhuman treatment suffered by many Cubans are graphically described. Del Mar rarely yields to mere sentimentality, and her forceful accounts make the reader feel and know how atrocities, if they are common enough, can desensitize the victim as well as the observer. Perhaps even more frightening than the brutalities and los

Author

Marcia Del Mar

Publisher

John F. Blair

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780895870117

Subjects

Political Science, History, Biography