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Armando Valladares's memoir of 22 years in Cuban prisons, from 1960 to 1982, most of it at the Isla de Pinos prison. A former Cuban official who turned against the regime, he survived by prayer and by writing poems that were smuggled out to Europe and the United States, which helped turn his case into an international cause. The book is often compared to Darkness at Noon and other classic prison narratives. This edition adds a new prologue on his life after prison and on Cuban dissidence through the Elian Gonzalez case. It suits readers of political memoir and prison testimony; at 423 pages it is a long, grim read rather than a quick one.
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Reviewers treat the book as a key first-hand account of political imprisonment in Cuba and praise its restraint and its poems. Many call it difficult to read but hard to put down. Some find the later political material thinner than the prison chapters.
Against All Hope is a memoir by Armando Valladares about his imprisonment in Castro's Cuba from 1960 to 1982. The book recounts how he survived through prayer and poetry.
Valladares's writing was smuggled out of prison to Europe and the U.S. The book is compared to Darkness at Noon and other classic prison narratives. This edition includes a new prologue by the author on his life since prison and on Cuban dissidence, up to the Elian Gonzalez case.