When young Julian Campos attempted to leave Cuba five years ago, the Castro regime allowed his parents to travel on, but kept him back at the last moment. Julian was forced to become a cutter, laboring day after day in the muddy sugarcane fields. Now it seems he may have found a way out -- but is it impossibly dangerous? Julian has reached a point at which hope and forgiveness seem to be his enemies, and the shadows his only friends.
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When young Julian Campos attempted to leave Cuba five years ago, the Castro regime allowed his parents to travel on, but kept him back at the last moment. Julian was forced to become a cutter, laboring day after day in the muddy sugarcane fields. Now it seems he may have found a way out -- but is it impossibly dangerous? Julian has reached a point at which hope and forgiveness seem to be his enemies, and the shadows his only friends.
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New York. 1991. February 1991. Available Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0345368592. Paperback Original. 212 pages. paperback. Cover design by Donald E. Munson. keywords: Literature Ethnic America Cuba. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Julian Campos, having served Castro's Cuba as a soldier and sugarcane cutter, is presently a university student awaiting permission to emigrate. Five years earlier his parents were stopped at the airport and told that they could not take their son with them to America. They proceeded to get on the plane, leaving Julian in the care of his grandmother. Now the young man has finally been notified that he, too, may leave, but only if he first agrees to an additional six months of ‘voluntary' work for the state's Ten-Million-Ton Sugarcane Program. Julian does his time-hard labor in the fields while living in barracks behind barbed wire fences. The news of his grandmother's death is withheld from him for weeks, and he is locked up when he protests. Finally, he is informed that he is being sent back to the army. Fed up, Julian joins a clandestine group planning to take a boat to Florida under cover of night. In direct and uncluttered prose, Suarez's ( Latin Jazz ) powerful novel about one individual's response to the abuses and arbitrariness of totalitarianism shows us how ordinary people can be driven to take extraordinary risks. -PUBLSIHERS WEEKLY. inventory #13180.
