Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba

by Alina Fernández

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"Mommy, mommy, call him. Tell him to come here right away. I have so many things to tell him!"I had a ton of things to tell him. I wanted him to find a solution to all the shortages of clothes; of meat, so it would again be distributed through the ration books.I also wanted to ask him to give our Christmas back. And to come live with us. I wanted to let him know how much we really needed him...Fidel didn't answer my letter. I kept writing him letters from a sweet and well-behaved child, a show more brave but sad girl. Letters resembling those of a secret, spurned lover...As a girl growing up in Cuba, Alina Fernandez found nothing abnormal in the fact that Fidel Castro would occasionally visit her house bearing gifts just for her. At the age of ten, her mother finally told her the truth: she was Castro's Daughter. show less

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Pas toen Alina Fern ez tien was, vertelde haar moeder haar dat zij de dochter van Fidel Castro was. Tot op dat moment had Alina zich nooit afgevraagd waarom haar moeder zo veel contact had met de Cubaanse leider. Op haar vijftiende vertrok Alina met haar moeder, die werk toegewezen kreeg van de Commandant, naar Frankrijk, waar ze kennismaakten met het kapitalisme.
Terug in Cuba zag ze de door Fidel en door het communisme veroorzaakte ellende. Tegen wil en dank werd ze beschouwd als ‘de dochter van de Commandant’. Uiteindelijk ontvluchtte ze het communistische Cuba, afkerig van de oneerbare politiek van haar vader.
In deze memoires beschrijft Alina haar eigen verhaal en dat van de Cubaanse geschiedenis door de ogen van het kind, de show more puber en de volwassen vrouw die zij was en is. show less
Insightful account of "privileged ?" life in Castro's Cuba.

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Alina Fernández; Fidel Castro

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Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
972.9106History & geographyHistory of North AmericaMexico, Central America, West Indies, BermudaWest Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; CaribbeanCubaCuba
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F1788.22 .F47 .A3Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaLatin America. Spanish AmericaGreater AntillesCubaCommunist regime
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