33 Revolutions
Canek Sanchez Guevara
(Author)
Howard Curtis
(Translator)
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Description
A young man's political awakening takes shape in the aftermath of Castro's Revolution in this "prayer of a novel" by the grandson of Che Guevara (Cleaver Magazine).
At the dawn of Communist Cuba, our unnamed hero, a young black Cuban man, loses his father to death and his mother to emigration. Now he spends much of his time with his Russian neighbor, discovering the pleasures of reading. The books he reads gradually open his eyes to the incongruity between party slogans and the oppressive reality that surrounds him: the office routine; the daily complaints of his colleagues; his own obsessive thoughts which circulate around his mind like a broken record.Every day he photographs the spontaneous eruptions of dissent on the streets and witnesses the sad spectacle of young people crowding onto makeshift rafts to escape the island. His frustration grows until a day when he declares his unwillingness to become an informer. And this is when his real troubles begin. "Not since Reinaldo Arenas has a Cuban literary voice arrived on American shores with such beaten madness, and sense of personal desperation."--Cleaver Magazine
Product Details
Price
$14.00
$13.02
Publisher
Europa Editions
Publish Date
October 11, 2016
Pages
128
Dimensions
4.6 X 0.4 X 6.9 inches | 0.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781609453480
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About the Author
Canek Sánchez Guevara, grandson of Che Guevara, left Cuba for Mexico in 1996. He worked for many of Mexico's most important newspapers as a columnist and correspondent, and he wrote a regular newspaper column called "Motorcycleless Diaries." He was a measured and informed critic of the Castro regime. He died in January 2015 at the age of forty.
Reviews
Praise for 33 Revolutions
"This unforgettable novel is not only a visceral rejection of Canek Sanchez Guevara's political inheritance as Che Guevara's grandson but also a very personal cry for help."
--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Political Life
"Not since Reinaldo Arenas has a Cuban literary voice arrived on American shores with such beaten madness, and sense of personal desperation."
--Nathaniel Popkin, Cleaver Magazine
Praise for 33 Revolutions "This unforgettable novel is not only a visceral rejection of Canek Sánchez Guevara's political inheritance as Che Guevara's grandson but also a very personal cry for help."
--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Political Life
"Not since Reinaldo Arenas has a Cuban literary voice arrived on American shores with such beaten madness, and sense of personal desperation."
--Nathaniel Popkin, Cleaver Magazine
"This unforgettable novel is not only a visceral rejection of Canek Sanchez Guevara's political inheritance as Che Guevara's grandson but also a very personal cry for help."
--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Political Life
"Not since Reinaldo Arenas has a Cuban literary voice arrived on American shores with such beaten madness, and sense of personal desperation."
--Nathaniel Popkin, Cleaver Magazine
Praise for 33 Revolutions "This unforgettable novel is not only a visceral rejection of Canek Sánchez Guevara's political inheritance as Che Guevara's grandson but also a very personal cry for help."
--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Political Life
"Not since Reinaldo Arenas has a Cuban literary voice arrived on American shores with such beaten madness, and sense of personal desperation."
--Nathaniel Popkin, Cleaver Magazine
