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ISBN
9781429948319
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
31-03-2009
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Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Auteur(s)
Eduardo F. Calcines
Leaving Glorytown
One Boy's Struggle Under Castro
Eduardo F. Calcines
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In
this
absorbing
memoir,
by
turns
humorous
and
heartbreaking,
Eduardo
Calcines
recounts
his
boyhood
and
chronicles
the
conditions
that
led
him
to
wish
above
all
else
to
leave
behind
his
beloved
extended
family
and
his
home
for
a
chance
at
a
better
future.Eduardo
F.
Calcines
was
a
child
of
Fidel
Castro's
Cuba;
he
was
just
three
years
old
when
Castro
came
to
power
in
January
1959.
After
that,
everything
changed
for
his
family
and
his
country.
When
he
was
ten,
his
family
applied
for
an
exit
visa
to
emigrate
to
America
and
he
was
ridiculed
by
his
schoolmates
and
even
his
teachers
for
being
a
traitor
to
his
country.
But
even
worse,
his
father
was
sent
to
an
agricultural
reform
camp
to
do
hard
labor
as
punishment
for
daring
to
want
to
leave
Cuba.
During
the
years
to
come,
as
he
grew
up
in
Glorytown,
a
neighborhood
in
the
city
of
Cienfuegos,
Eduardo
hoped
with
all
his
might
that
their
exit
visa
would
be
granted
before
he
turned
fifteen,
the
age
at
which
he
would
be
drafted
into
the army.
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