Summary
Canek Sanchez Guevara: 33 revolutions
During his short and intense life, Canek Sanchez Guevara, the grandson of the legendary Che, almost secretly created this work, which conquered the world only after his recent death. The unmasking of the Cuban Revolution as an endless, monotonous spin, the unmasking of an ideal that has worn out like a too-frequently moved record, in thirty-three short chapters/turns will be committed before us by Guevara's nameless hero, a cog in the state apparatus, who one day, seemingly without any provocation, suddenly stops and refuses to obey. Single, black, obsessive reader and solitary walker, lost in tropicalism and haunted by a sea of investigators and a dream of escape, he is the wrong man in the wrong place, but just like that - the best witness we could wish for.
33 turns is not only an excellent historical novel - it is also a poignant settling of personal accounts, a reckoning between the vision of the revolution that Ernesto Che Guevara believed in and the one that, at the end of the last century along with the rest of the Cubans, lived his grandson. New in a series of revolutions.
"A true novel. A short novel. A quick novel. Less than two hours of reading. Shorter than a boxing match. Fiercer than the fight of the century..." - La Cause Littéraire
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