Autobiography of Fidel Castro

<p>An audacious biography of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad he became A Man Who Knew Too Much. Escaping a death sentence and now living in exile Fuentes has written a brilliant satirical and utterly captivating autobiography of the Cuban leader in Fidel's own arrogant and seductive language discussing everything from Castro's early sexual experiences in Biran to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder legacy and state secrets. Critics have long admired Fuentes's writing; one U.S. article called him Norman Mailer's Cuban pen pal. Akin to Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas or Edmund Morris's Dutch this wickedly entertaining true-to-life masterpiece is as imaginative and outsized as Castro himself.</p>