The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

✍ Scribed by Norberto Fuentes

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 776 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0393076733

✦ Synopsis

"A compelling fictional personage-by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times An audacious "biography" of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s, as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad, he became A Man Who Knew Too Much. Escaping a death sentence and now living in exile, Fuentes has written a brilliant, satirical, and utterly captivating "autobiography" of the Cuban leader--in Fidel's own arrogant and seductive language--discussing everything from Castro's early sexual experiences in Biran to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder, legacy, and state secrets. Critics have long...