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Como me fui en Balsa: Cartas de Guantanamo
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Series: Historias de Guantanamo Bay, Book 1
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ISBN10: 1546356967
ISBN13: 9781546356967
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 19 2017
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9781546356967
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 19 2017
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
How I Went in Balsa is a personal account narrated through a letter to relatives from Guantánamo, where the author was relocated as a refugee after spending nearly a week at sea.
Written in a simple, colloquial style that is also intensely dramatic and fast-paced, the narrative carries us from gripping suspense to fleeting moments of calm, and from raw courage to overwhelming fear during the perilous crossing of the high seas on a makeshift raft-propelled by oars and sails. It is a story repeated thousands of times by Cubans, yet it remains strikingly original and deeply surprising. Many Cuban rafters' tales ended in tragedy, their voices silenced forever by the victims' fate. Others, like this one, survive as powerful testimonies to what has often been called the 1994 Guantanamo's Exodus-the mass exodus across the deadly Straits of Florida, also known as the Straits of Death.
Written in a simple, colloquial style that is also intensely dramatic and fast-paced, the narrative carries us from gripping suspense to fleeting moments of calm, and from raw courage to overwhelming fear during the perilous crossing of the high seas on a makeshift raft-propelled by oars and sails. It is a story repeated thousands of times by Cubans, yet it remains strikingly original and deeply surprising. Many Cuban rafters' tales ended in tragedy, their voices silenced forever by the victims' fate. Others, like this one, survive as powerful testimonies to what has often been called the 1994 Guantanamo's Exodus-the mass exodus across the deadly Straits of Florida, also known as the Straits of Death.
____________________________________________________ Cómo me fui en balsa es un testimonio personal narrado en forma de carta dirigida a familiares desde Guantánamo, donde el autor fue reubicado como refugiado tras pasar casi una semana en alta mar.
Con un lenguaje sencillo y coloquial, pero al mismo tiempo dramático y vertiginoso, el relato nos lleva del suspense a la calma pasajera, y del coraje al terror absoluto al cruzar el mar abierto en una balsa rústica, remando y navegando a vela. Es una historia que se ha repetido miles de veces entre los cubanos, pero que siempre resulta original, impactante y capaz de sorprender. Muchas de las experiencias de los balseros cubanos terminaron en tragedia, y sus vÃctimas nunca pudieron contarlas. Otras, como esta, nos llegan como valioso testimonio de lo que se ha denominado el Éxodo de Guantánamo de 1994 -el éxodo masivo a través del Estrecho de la Muerte (o Estrecho de Florida).
Con un lenguaje sencillo y coloquial, pero al mismo tiempo dramático y vertiginoso, el relato nos lleva del suspense a la calma pasajera, y del coraje al terror absoluto al cruzar el mar abierto en una balsa rústica, remando y navegando a vela. Es una historia que se ha repetido miles de veces entre los cubanos, pero que siempre resulta original, impactante y capaz de sorprender. Muchas de las experiencias de los balseros cubanos terminaron en tragedia, y sus vÃctimas nunca pudieron contarlas. Otras, como esta, nos llegan como valioso testimonio de lo que se ha denominado el Éxodo de Guantánamo de 1994 -el éxodo masivo a través del Estrecho de la Muerte (o Estrecho de Florida).
Una lectura imprescindible para entender la odisea de los balseros en los años 90 y el costo humano de la migración cubana.
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