Child of the Revolution

Growing up in Castro's Cuba

By: Luis M Garcia

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Paperback | 1 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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What was it really like to grow up in Castro's people's paradise? With an evocative wide-eyed innocence, Luis M. Garcia takes us back to his childhood in this evocative memoir of growing up in 1960s Cuba.

Cuba, a land of cigars, hot nights, sultry music and romantic revolutionary heroes. But what was it really like to live in Fidel Castro's tropical paradise? 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 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 swears allegiance to Lenin, Marx and the legendary Che Guevara under swaying palm trees, 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.

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"Balancing the rich flavor of Cuba's sweet cigars against the hushed tones and paranoid whispers of its people." --"Cuba News"

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Don't Look Back...	p. 1
In a Time of Revolution	p. 6
Viva Cuba Socialista!	p. 19
Missiles in Paradise	p. 27
Good Little Communists	p. 38
A Carnival and a Funeral	p. 47
La Curandera	p. 55
All in the Family	p. 60
Rationing Tales	p. 75
Kings of Havana	p. 82
Opium of the Masses	p. 90
Che Lives!	p. 103
Giant Pineapples and Other Socialist Miracles	p. 109
In Every Barrio, Revolution	p. 118
Those Bulgarian Girls	p. 129
The Great Revolutionary Offensive	p. 134
A Miliciano at the Door	p. 150
With Fidel in the Sugarcane Fields	p. 158
No more Christmas for you!	p. 173
We Want to be Like Che!	p. 186
The Magical Telegram	p. 199
Havana, Mi Amor	p. 207
Adios, Cuba	p. 220
In a Plane of Plenty	p. 229
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