Give Me Liberty
Author: Hoffman, David E.
ISBN: 9781785789243
RM172.50
Publisher,Icon Books
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Format, Hardcover
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No. of Pages, 544
'This is a splendid book, which narrates the tragedy of a Cuban, Oswaldo Payá, who dared to oppose Fidel Castro in communist Cuba, and paid dearly for it. David E. Hoffman's research is magnificent and his biography reads like a great novel' - MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
The riveting biography of a dissident who defied Castro's dictatorship, and paid with hislife.
Oswaldo Payá was seven years old when Fidel Castro seized power, promising to create a'free, democratic, and just Cuba'. But Castro instead created an authoritarian regime andcrushed all dissent.
The dream of democracy became Payá's life work. Sent to Castro's forced labour camps,he could not stay silent, and formed a pro-democracy movement. After receiving multipledeath threats, Payá was killed in a suspicious car accident in 2012.Democracy is in retreat all over the world. Oswaldo Payá showed how to fight for it. Hisbattle was waged from the streets of Havana but carried universal truths.
Pulitzer Prize-winner David E. Hoffman, author of the acclaimed The Billion Dollar Spy, tells thecompelling story of a courageous dissident in action.
Oswaldo Payá was seven years old when Fidel Castro seized power, promising to create a'free, democratic, and just Cuba'. But Castro instead created an authoritarian regime andcrushed all dissent.
The dream of democracy became Payá's life work. Sent to Castro's forced labour camps,he could not stay silent, and formed a pro-democracy movement. After receiving multipledeath threats, Payá was killed in a suspicious car accident in 2012.Democracy is in retreat all over the world. Oswaldo Payá showed how to fight for it. Hisbattle was waged from the streets of Havana but carried universal truths.
Pulitzer Prize-winner David E. Hoffman, author of the acclaimed The Billion Dollar Spy, tells thecompelling story of a courageous dissident in action.
David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor at The Washington Post, author of The Oligarchs (PublicAffairs, 2002), The Dead Hand (Icon, 2011), and The Billion Dollar Spy (Icon, 2017), and winner of a Pulitzer Prize. He lives with his wife in Maryland, USA.
