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"As one of Fidel Castro's children, Alina Fernandez had a strangely mixed upbringing, a mixture of privelige and privation. This is her private story, told from her intensely personal point of view, and making it quite plain that she speaks for herself and the people of Cuba that she knew in the last forty years, rather than as an expert on Castro the ruler of Cuba. It is a fascinating and often painful account of her life in that country. Alina Fernandez escaped into exile as 'a forty year old Cinderella' from the poverty and the devastation of that tormented island, forced to leave her own daughter behind in Cuba. She now lives in Spain."
Michael JR Jose, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Political/social rights fight
Yes
Plotlet:
- fighting for social change
- fighting government corruption
Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside)
- Hispanic/Spanish
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
ethnic of society (outside)
- Hispanic
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- physically sick
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Island?
Yes
Island:
- Caribbean Islands
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Book makes you feel?
- concerned
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- Dry-cynical
- sarcastic/sardonic
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- selfishness
- wicked men
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very unfavorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 26-50% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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