A little bit of shameless self-promotion:
Something from my day job, my other self, the self who doesn’t have to deal with any Castro-related crap.
My safest, most comfortable exile, where there is no Batista, no Castro, no Castronoids, no Obama, no Pope Francis, no Cardinal Ortega, no Normalization Circus.
When I’m in the 16th and 17th centuries, there is plenty of other awful stuff to deal with, for sure, but while I’m there I’m most truly free of the Castro nightmare.
I began this project in 1999, and took time off the following summer to write “Kiss the Lizard, Jesus” (later published as “Waiting for Snow in Havana”).
If I hadn’t gone insane and written that other book about Cuba, and then another one of those books, this one might have been ready much sooner. But it wouldn’t have been as good.
About the image on the cover: 15th century statue of St. Margaret, partially decapitated by Protestant iconoclasts in the 16th century, and buried outside a church in Essex, England. It lay hidden from view, forgotten, until the 20th century, when it was found by accident, as repairs were being made to that church.
Of the thousands of images I considered for the cover, this one “speaks” most eloquently about the contents of the book, which is — at bottom — a book about the toll taken by all revolutions.
To get more information on it, go HERE
To order at a discount go HERE (Amazon)
Congratulations, Carlos. If the contents are as good as the cover, it should be a very good book indeed.