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Persona Non Grata: A Memoir of Disenchantment With the Cuban Revolution
By
Andrew Hurley (trans) and
Jorge Edwards
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Marlowe & Co
Publication date
August 1, 1993
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781569249741
ISBN-10
1569249741
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.30 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$27.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
The author shares his impressions of Castro, and explains why he became disillusioned with Cuba's government
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In 1970 Jorge Edwards was sent by socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende as his countryâs first envoy to break the diplomatic blockade that had sealed Cuba for over a decade. His arrival coincided with the turning point of the revolution, when Castro began to repress the very intellectuals he once courted. In Kafkaesque detail, Edwards records the four explosive months he spent in Havana trying to open a Chilean embassy and his disenchantment with the revolution. His stay culminated in the arrest of his friend Heberto Padillaâthe first imprisonment of a well-known writer by the regimeâfor giving Edwards a ânegative view of the revolution.â In a menacing midnight political debate with Edwards immediately after Padillaâs arrest, Castro argued that in this phase of the revolution, bourgeois writers would no longer have âanything to do in Cuba.â Castro accused Edwards of âconduct hostile to the revolutionâ and declared him âpersona non grata.â The winner of the Cervantes prizeâthe Spanish language equivalent to the Nobel Prize for literatureâJorge Edwards' memoir splendidly recounts this time and the wrath of Castro.
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Hardcover
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from Marlowe & Co (August 1, 1993)
9781569249741 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $27.95
About: The author shares his impressions of Castro, and explains why he became disillusioned with Cuba's government
About: The author shares his impressions of Castro, and explains why he became disillusioned with Cuba's government
Paperback
Reprint edition from Nation Books (April 20, 2004)
9781560256076 | details & prices | 304 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $13.95
About: A leading Latin American progressive writer and intellectual recalls the four months he spent in Cuba in 1970 trying to reopen the Chilean embassy and confronting the evils of the Castro regime in the process.
About: A leading Latin American progressive writer and intellectual recalls the four months he spent in Cuba in 1970 trying to reopen the Chilean embassy and confronting the evils of the Castro regime in the process.
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