Joao Cerqueira
Autor von The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
Über den Autor
Werke von Joao Cerqueira
Perestroika 1 Exemplar
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1964
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Portugal
- Geburtsort
- Porto, Portugal
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Auszeichnungen
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 11
- Mitglieder
- 42
- Beliebtheit
- #357,757
- Bewertung
- 3.4
- Rezensionen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 13
- Sprachen
- 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.… (mehr)