Loving Che

Loving Che

by Ana Menendez (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Published: 05 Jan 2004

ISBN 10: 0747270864
ISBN 13: 9780747270867

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In the aftermath of Castro's revolution, a man flees Cuba with his daughter's baby, and finds, pinned on its clothes, three lines of a Pablo Neruda love poem. Decades later, that baby returns to Havana as a young woman; armed with only this snatch of verse, she searches in vain for the mother who abandoned her. On her return to America she receives a package - a collection of tattered photographs of Che Guevara, and a letter, apparently from her mother, which documents a passionate affair with the hero of the revolution. Now, the daughter must set out for Cuba once more, to find out whether this story is a fantasy, bred out of the savage and surreal drama of Cuba's history. Ana Menendez's writing has the heady poetry of Isabelle Allende, and the clever narrative idea is handled with intelligence.