Joao Cerqueira
Autore di The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
Sull'Autore
Opere di Joao Cerqueira
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1964
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Portugal
- Luogo di nascita
- Porto, Portugal
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 11
- Utenti
- 42
- Popolarità
- #357,757
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 14
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)