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Título: Olas [Waves]
Autor: Jose Ramon Torres
Narrador: Alexander Rodriguez
Formato: Unabridged
Duración: 5 hrs and 37 mins
Idioma: Español
Fecha de publicación: 01-15-16
Editor: Jose Ramon Torres
Categorías: Fiction, Historical
Resumen del editor:
"De este país lo que hay que hacer es irse de una vez."
ángel nunca se habría imaginado en una situación así: hambriento, extenuado y con la duda de si sobrevivirá un día más. Pero el futuro de su familia no tiene precio.
Olas sumerge al lector en un mundo de dominó, ron, puros habanos, sexo, drogas y boleros, a la vez que traza un paralelismo entre tres episodios de éxodo cubano a Estados Unidos. Un libro sobre Cuba que no toma partido con izquierdas ni derechas, sino con gente de a pie, sofocada por las circunstancias. Un homenaje al emigrante, sus esperanzas y sacrificios.
Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
Opiniones de los miembros:
This Book Changed My View on Immigration.
I am an American, so I have never had a view of what people who emigrate to the United States have to experience that causes them to leave their own countries. However, I did live in an area that was similar to what some of these people were going through. Except, I did not want to leave my country, I just wanted to leave my neighborhood for a much better neighborhood. This book offers me an inside, personal look at what people are having to endure and risks they are willing to take to get to a better life.
What Olas taught me was what people are willing to sacrifice so they can get out of their corrupt countries. Corrupt leadership is only interested in pay-off's and the bigger, better deal for themselves while all the time they are passing laws that restrict and hold citizen's hostage. This leaves them at the mercy of politicans who care nothing for them.
This family was willing to sacrifice their own lives fighting against sharks just to get out of Cuba; even if they lost their own lives in the jaws of said shark. Their situation must have been really dire to have to risk life and limb for a better life in a strange place that they have never seen. I have gotten pretty emotional while reading this book.
As an American, I would make two suggestions:
1) This book should be published in English so English-speaking people can understand what these people go through
2) To know just how blessed we are to live where we do because there is always someone out there who is struggling so much more than we are.
I do highly recommend this book because I want people to know that there are thousands and thousands of whole families looking to make a better life for themselves in a place where they are treated as valued citizens. My heart goes out to the people who have to suffer through the events laid out in this book.
Lectura amena que les hará recordar momentos de la historia ...
Lectura amena que les hará recordar momentos de la historia reciente de Cuba. Para los emigrantes cubanos, esta obra de ficción, escrita con derroche de cubanía, nos hará identificarnos con sus personajes, pues de una manera u otra, hemos vivido experiencias y tribulaciones similares en nuestra peregrinación por el mundo.
Highly recommended
I have always been fascinated by the Cuban culture and after reading the description of Olas I just had to purchase it. I was instantly hooked from chapter one. The book had a great plot but the character development in this book was like no other. You could really feel what each member of the family was feeling. I rooted for them, wept for them, and even laughed with them.
