by Armando Valladares · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401351266
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«Contra toda esperanza» is the memoir by Armando Valladares, published by Plaza & Janés in 1985, in paperback (447 pages, in Spanish).
The author recounts in the first person his experience as a political prisoner in Cuba for twenty-two years: the inhuman conditions of the prisons, the violence, and the physical and spiritual destruction of the inmates. A testimony of resistance against oppression that culminates in his release in 1982.
It is part of the Biografías y memorias collection from Plaza & Janés and bears the subtitle «Mis memorias».
Reading for those interested in testimonies of political prisoners, repression in Castro's Cuba, and memoirs of survival and human dignity.
Armando Valladares Perez is a Cuban-American poet, diplomat and former political prisoner for his involvement in the Cuban dissident movement.
