About to lose his job at the Jesuit boys' high school where he has taught for twenty-two years, 茳car Dellosantos decides to give one final daring history lesson that provides a kaleidoscopic
portrait of Cuba as it exists for its exiles and dispossessed, revealing in the process the shape and substance of his own life as well as that of his entire community. A first novel. Reprint.
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