33 Revolutions

(Paperback)

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33 Revolutions is a candid and moving story set in contemporary Cuba. When our hero finds himself alone, separated from his wife with his father dead and his mother fled to Spain, he soon learns about the disappointments of a generation that fully believed in the ideals of the Castro Revolution. It is a unique look into lives of ordinary people in Cuba over the past five decades and a stylish work of fiction about a young man's awakening.

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Praise for 33 Revolutions

"This unforgettable novel is not only a visceral rejection of Canek Snchez Guevara's political inheritance as Che Guevara's grandson but also a very personal cry for help."
--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Political Life

"Not since Reinaldo Arenas has a Cuban literary voice arrived on American shores with such beaten madness, and sense of personal desperation."
--Nathaniel Popkin, Cleaver Magazine

Praise for 33 Revolutions
"This unforgettable novel is not only a visceral rejection of Canek Sanchez Guevara's political inheritance as Che Guevara's grandson but also a very personal cry for help."
--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Political Life

"Not since Reinaldo Arenas has a Cuban literary voice arrived on American shores with such beaten madness, and sense of personal desperation."
--Nathaniel Popkin, Cleaver Magazine

Author Bio

Canek Sanchez Guevara, grandson of Che Guevara, left Cuba for Mexico in 1996. He worked for many of Mexicos most important newspapers as a columnist and correspondent, and he wrote a regular newspaper column called Motorcycleless Diaries. He was a measured and informed critic of the Castro regime. He died in January 2015 at the age of forty. Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.