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PUBLISHER: Freight Books
FORMAT: Electronic book text
ISBN: 9781910449233
RRP: £8.99
PAGES: 272
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 18, 2015
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The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
Joao Cerqueira
In this magical realist blend of the all-too-real, the imaginary and the just plain absurd, the world teeters on the brink of destruction as JFK and Fidel Castro prepare once again for battle. As protests mount on the streets and the wily Castro plans his ruthless final move, the possibility of salvation emerges: the Second Coming of Christ to broker the conflict, assisted by the housewife Fatima. The result is a comical and highly nuanced exploration of the relationships between Capitalism and Communism, oppressed and oppressor, fantasy, memory and reality, in which grey areas proliferate and the rug is repeatedly pulled from beneath the reader’s feet.
Joao Cerqueira
Joao Cerqueira has a PhD in History of Art from the University of Oporto. He had four year research sponsorship grant awarded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), within the field of history of art. He covered the Porto 2001 European Capital of Culture for Arte IbErica magazine. He is the author of seven books including Art and Literature in the Spanish Civil War, Blame It On Too Much Freedom, The Tragedy of Fidel Castro (winner of the Beverly Hills Book Prize and USA Book Prize) and Devil’s Observations.