| Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag Contributor(s): Valladares, Armando (Author) |
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ISBN: 1893554198 ISBN-13: 9781893554191 Publisher: Encounter Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his deep Christian faith kept him from abandoning hope during the most evil treatment. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - History | Latin America - Central America - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001617001 |
| Physical Information: 1.29" H x 6.12" W x 9" (1.49 lbs) 423 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag. Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Valladares was not released until 1982, by which time he had become one of the world's most celebrated prisoners of conscience. Interned all those years at the infamous Isla de Pinos prison (from whose windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion), Valladares suffered endless days of violence, putrid food and squalid living conditions, while listening to Castro's firing squads eliminating counter revolutionaries in the courtyard below his cell. Valladares survived by prayer and by writing poetry whose publication in Europe brought his case to the attention of international figures such as French President Francois Mitterand and to human rights organizations whose constant pressure on the Castro regime finally led to his release. |