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Castro's Daughter : An Exile's Memoir of Cuba
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by Alina Fernandez and Dolores M. Koch
Sales Rank: 170624
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 272 pages
Published by: St. Martin's PressEdition: 1st Edition October 15, 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0312193084
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312193089
Book Dimensions:
8.6 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Weighs: 15.4 ounces
From Library Journal
Fernandez, who learned at age ten that Castro was her father, eventually renounced the regime and was forced to flee Cuba. Here's her story.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Fidels illegitimate offspring informs the waiting world that the Cuban dictator is not an especially cuddly fellow. Fernandez, now living in exile in Spain, recounts with a relentlessly thumb-in-mouth attitude her years of growing up in revolutionary Cuba. Her characters number not only Marxist heavies like Raul Castro and Che Guevara (who looked like a big frog, and who sired an illegitimate daughter of his own with a pair of prize-winning boobs), but also elves, gnomes, and sprites. In the hands of Gabriel Garca Mrquez, the bow to magical realism might have worked. But in this young womans coming-of-age tale, the approach proves irretrievably cloying. Fernandez dishes plenty of dirt about her famous father, who was in no hurry to acknowledge her publicly, but who made sure she was blessed with a steady supply of Barbie dolls, chauffeured cars, and well-situated beaux. Some of the dirt here: Castro was once married to the daughter of a high official in the Batista dictatorship, a union that allowed him to receive a lenient sentence after his guerrilla bands ill-fated assault on Santiago, in which many of his men died or suffered torture, while Fidel had not even a single scratch. A little more: His Highness liked to swimbut only after the beaches had been cleared of any other bathers. And then, gulps Fernandez, Castro didnt approve of her frequent and disastrous marriages and love interests. Another item: He dispatched tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers, including some of her boyfriends, to die pointlessly in Angola. To punish her distant father, preoccupied with the business of spreading revolution and staving off Yanqui imperialism, Fernandez became a fashion modeland famine-stricken Cubas only voluntary anorexic. Fidel must have been relieved when his daughter left town. Readers who brave her whines will feel that the book ends not a page too soon. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba (Paperback)
Alina Fernandez has quite a story to tell. Not only does she provide an insider's view of life in the prison nation of Cuba, she offers a first hand account of growing up illegitimate with a biological father who had little time or interest in his inconvenient offspring. The Cuban existence she portrays is bleak and empty. Under Castro's domination, a zeitgeist of amorality has entrapped Cuba and its innocent citizens in a web where dreams don't come true. Divorce and abortion are rampant and illicit sex begins at a very young age. Alina shows how Castro's officially imposed atheism enslaved the populace and stands as a constant de facto assault on the family structure. Parental rights are nonexistent, because children are only allowed to see their mothers and fathers once a month. To illustrate the country's miasma, she tells of having to wait five years to acquire a used toilet. While she thoroughly documents Fidel's many faults from his murderous rampages to his unsatable sex drive, this autobiography never stoops to the level of a "Daddy Dearest" style hatchet job. Alina is equally up front about her own deficiencies that include a string of failed marriages-although that has tragically become the norm in much of Cuban society. The end shows her transformation with not only her escape to freedom but the conversion to Christianity of her teenage daughter. The original version ended with an open letter to the despot asking him to legalize Christmas again-a rare concession that has actually been granted. While she is now a resident of Spain, Alina spent considerable time in the United States this year unsuccessfully fighting to have a common sense approach applied toward the case of poor Elian Gonzalez whose mother valiantly lost her life getting him to freedom only to have her sacrifice obliterated by the gestapo tactics of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno. This book provides an extensive look into life of entropy the lawless raid returned him to. If more Americans could comprehend Alina's story, Elian would not have been evicted and Clinton and Reno would be subjected to appropriate criminal penalties.
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