BOOK - PARENT CUBA - Wendy GUERRA - Cuba 
Such a title could not leave me indifferent ... -
The autobiographical nature of this "romance" is evident (the narrator Nadia Guerra is also the same name as the author).
The book shows how strongly the revolutionary legacy, as fascinating as it is, is difficult to bear.
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Nadia The narrator speaks of herself, her friends, her family, including:
A beautiful evocation of his mother Albis Torres found sick in Moscow, and it goes back to Cuba where she will soon die,
A moving portrait of Celia Sanchez, the revolutionary hero.
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I found the "structure" of the novel somewhat rambling, but what a beautiful style: loud and colorful!
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EXTRACTS
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"The officer asked me a lot, I offered two pearls of my eyes , made in Cuba."
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"There are people who live in perpetual flight, which must leave the place where they were born, but there are so fragile beings who, when they escape, are swallowed by the world."
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"... the snowflakes rested on the girl's hair. She fell on a park bench, and stayed there, shivering, during that She passed this new world of light that gradually became covered with white. It was the snow, finally. The snow was defeated in a whisper, as ephemeral as the flowers and the illusions of love but, like the flowers and illusions, we remember his life. "
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" The revolution is a path that, once committed, can not stop. Stop is equivalent to die. We can just move on. But the struggle continues to cost lives. Each step requires its quota of blood. "
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Guerra was born in 1970 in Havana where she still resides. filmmaker, poet and novelist.
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Besides "Mother Cuba," she has published collections of poetry and two novels "Everyone is going" (2006) and "Ask naked in Havana" (2010).
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Guerra:
"Being born in Cuba was to resemble the absence of the world to which we submit. I have not learned to use a credit card ATMs do not answer me. [...] Outside I feel safe, inside, I feel comfortable prisoner. "
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"It happens in Europe, read or hear things that do not match the reality of Cuba. Similarly, there we were talking about a reality that no knows. In Cuba, no television or newspapers do not tell the truth. It is the artist, filmmaker or writer to approach reality. At the risk of banality, too, since all our job is to transcribe the news. sublimate reality while being faithful to him, this is what I want. "
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Celia Sanchez (1920-1980)
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A leading figure in the Cuban Revolution: After having actively participated in armed struggle, she got political responsibilities.
It was very close to Fidel Castro for several years.
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