Joao Cerqueira
Auteur van The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
Over de Auteur
Werken van Joao Cerqueira
Perestroika 1 exemplaar
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1964
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Portugal
- Geboorteplaats
- Porto, Portugal
Leden
Besprekingen
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 11
- Leden
- 42
- Populariteit
- #357,757
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 14
- Talen
- 3
Cerqueira paints a vivid, if terrifying picture of a brutal regime and the characters who struggle against it are drawn with great pathos. He manages to render even the most odious, self-serving among them as vulnerable, human. The author expertly weaves each narrative into a tense fabric of despair and asks, finally, if there is any redemption in revenge or is true forgiveness the only way to peace, both for individuals and a nation.
A surprise plot twist ties each of the separate, yet intersecting lives of the main characters together in a beautifully poetic way. Readers of political intrigues and Cold War dramas will enjoy this.… (meer)