The Cave of Quivican.
The author of this short story was born in Havana, Cuba during the Stalinist years of comrade Castros'—in plural—and one of the things they did was creating boarding schools similar to concentration camps; because you were not able to go home just half the weekend with your empty stomach. Every day you had to perform compulsory agricultural work, for free, under the Cuban hurting Sun, while receiving a pitiable feeding.
If you 'like cheese', this one will surprise you: I first in my lifetime touched a strawberry when I was 11 years old working in those agricultural fields, surrounded by a chain link fence which helped 'them' to keep us inside the perimeters and be able to check periodically that none of 'us', the students, were brave enough to swallow one of those little fruits.
At the end of such mandatory daily agricultural work, on top of everything they made us to open our mouths and check inside our teeth if we had the courage to even taste one of such prohibited fruits. If you were caught taking just one, you were not allowed to go next weekend home, staying in such prison-schools, always far from the cities in the middle of nowhere; nevertheless, some of us risked it all and escaped to the 'Cave of Quivicán', underground, being the only incentive to get out from that madhouse type of society.
We hope you enjoy and reflect about your 'here' blessings while reading this refreshing real story, even if at times the fiction seems to seize it.
Best Regards.
P/D: This is part of the book entitled: "Tour and Tales" with similar articles. It is not a guide for the place, it does not say anything like that in the description; but places the author visited with short stories.
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If you 'like cheese', this one will surprise you: I first in my lifetime touched a strawberry when I was 11 years old working in those agricultural fields, surrounded by a chain link fence which helped 'them' to keep us inside the perimeters and be able to check periodically that none of 'us', the students, were brave enough to swallow one of those little fruits.
At the end of such mandatory daily agricultural work, on top of everything they made us to open our mouths and check inside our teeth if we had the courage to even taste one of such prohibited fruits. If you were caught taking just one, you were not allowed to go next weekend home, staying in such prison-schools, always far from the cities in the middle of nowhere; nevertheless, some of us risked it all and escaped to the 'Cave of Quivicán', underground, being the only incentive to get out from that madhouse type of society.
We hope you enjoy and reflect about your 'here' blessings while reading this refreshing real story, even if at times the fiction seems to seize it.
Best Regards.
P/D: This is part of the book entitled: "Tour and Tales" with similar articles. It is not a guide for the place, it does not say anything like that in the description; but places the author visited with short stories.
The Cave of Quivican.
The author of this short story was born in Havana, Cuba during the Stalinist years of comrade Castros'—in plural—and one of the things they did was creating boarding schools similar to concentration camps; because you were not able to go home just half the weekend with your empty stomach. Every day you had to perform compulsory agricultural work, for free, under the Cuban hurting Sun, while receiving a pitiable feeding.
If you 'like cheese', this one will surprise you: I first in my lifetime touched a strawberry when I was 11 years old working in those agricultural fields, surrounded by a chain link fence which helped 'them' to keep us inside the perimeters and be able to check periodically that none of 'us', the students, were brave enough to swallow one of those little fruits.
At the end of such mandatory daily agricultural work, on top of everything they made us to open our mouths and check inside our teeth if we had the courage to even taste one of such prohibited fruits. If you were caught taking just one, you were not allowed to go next weekend home, staying in such prison-schools, always far from the cities in the middle of nowhere; nevertheless, some of us risked it all and escaped to the 'Cave of Quivicán', underground, being the only incentive to get out from that madhouse type of society.
We hope you enjoy and reflect about your 'here' blessings while reading this refreshing real story, even if at times the fiction seems to seize it.
Best Regards.
P/D: This is part of the book entitled: "Tour and Tales" with similar articles. It is not a guide for the place, it does not say anything like that in the description; but places the author visited with short stories.
If you 'like cheese', this one will surprise you: I first in my lifetime touched a strawberry when I was 11 years old working in those agricultural fields, surrounded by a chain link fence which helped 'them' to keep us inside the perimeters and be able to check periodically that none of 'us', the students, were brave enough to swallow one of those little fruits.
At the end of such mandatory daily agricultural work, on top of everything they made us to open our mouths and check inside our teeth if we had the courage to even taste one of such prohibited fruits. If you were caught taking just one, you were not allowed to go next weekend home, staying in such prison-schools, always far from the cities in the middle of nowhere; nevertheless, some of us risked it all and escaped to the 'Cave of Quivicán', underground, being the only incentive to get out from that madhouse type of society.
We hope you enjoy and reflect about your 'here' blessings while reading this refreshing real story, even if at times the fiction seems to seize it.
Best Regards.
P/D: This is part of the book entitled: "Tour and Tales" with similar articles. It is not a guide for the place, it does not say anything like that in the description; but places the author visited with short stories.
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| BN ID: | 2940013798311 |
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| Publisher: | Alejandro's Libros |
| Publication date: | 12/31/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 81 KB |
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