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About the Author

Nick Caistor is a writer, translator and broadcaster, who has written widely on Latin American culture and politics

Obras por Nick Caistor

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The Devil and Miss Prym (2000) — Tradutor, algumas edições3,699 exemplares
Cathedral of the Sea (2006) — Tradutor, algumas edições3,483 exemplares
The Map of Time (2008) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,991 exemplares
The Japanese Lover (2015) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,987 exemplares
A Long Petal of the Sea (2019) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,642 exemplares
The House of Paper (2004) — Tradutor, algumas edições679 exemplares
The Seven Madmen (1929) — Posfácio, algumas edições545 exemplares
The Shipyard (1961) — Tradutor, algumas edições504 exemplares
The Map of the Sky (2012) — Tradutor, algumas edições471 exemplares
Traveller of the Century (2009) — Tradutor, algumas edições433 exemplares
The Silence of the White City (2016) — Tradutor, algumas edições404 exemplares
Tattoo (1975) — Tradutor, algumas edições358 exemplares
The Daughter's Tale (2019) — Tradutor, algumas edições340 exemplares
The Buenos Aires Quintet (1997) — Tradutor, algumas edições340 exemplares
Springtime in a Broken Mirror (1982) — Tradutor, algumas edições269 exemplares
The Vineyard (2015) — Tradutor, algumas edições257 exemplares
The Water Rituals (2017) — Tradutor, algumas edições225 exemplares
The Map of Chaos (2014) — Tradutor, algumas edições197 exemplares
The Man of My Life (2000) — Tradutor, algumas edições174 exemplares
The Days of the Deer (2000) — Tradutor, algumas edições163 exemplares
Talking to Ourselves (2012) — Tradutor, algumas edições147 exemplares
The Hare (1991) — Tradutor, algumas edições139 exemplares
Insatiable: The Sexual Adventures of a French Girl in Spain (2004) — Tradutor, algumas edições137 exemplares
Malvinas Requiem: Visions of an Underground War (1983) — Tradutor, algumas edições98 exemplares
The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra (2008) — Tradutor, algumas edições93 exemplares
Fracture (2014) — Tradutor, algumas edições92 exemplares
The Things We Don't Do (2014) — Tradutor, algumas edições85 exemplares
The Moldavian Pimp (2004) — Tradutor, algumas edições61 exemplares
The Proof (1992) — Tradutor, algumas edições51 exemplares
To Bury Our Fathers (1978) — Tradutor, algumas edições51 exemplares
The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof (2017) — Tradutor, algumas edições48 exemplares
The Little Buddhist Monk (2005) — Tradutor, algumas edições30 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1946-07-15
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Locais de residência
Norwich, England, UK
Ocupações
translator
journalist
author
BBC Radio presenter
Relações
Hopkinson, Amanda (spouse)

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Nick Caistor is an award-winning translator of more than thirty books from Spain and Latin America.  He has edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Latin American Fiction and has translated other Barcelona-based writers such as Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marsé, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.  [from Cathedral of the Sea (translation of Catedral de la mar) (2008)]

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Castro, the state-socialist communist who was America's biggest bogeyman during the Cold-War and then the proverbial 'has-been' after the downfall of the Berlin wall. Caistor reveals the real Castro to us through this short but highly detailed biography. He charts the dictator's youth, tryst with Che and then eventual emergence as the Latin American emblem of Marxist Leninism.

It must be remembered that Caistor relies on facts available in the public domain to relate this introduction to the 20th century's most contradictory statesman. Castro valued human life but was also ruthless in his extinguishing of any opposition. Like many Dictators, he was a dimensional study in sadistic contradiction. And the latter is what Caistor succinctly brings to the fore.

Ultimately, by the book's end, we are left with the impression that Castro was a glitch in history's Matrix. A tyrant who survived both exterior and interior threats by being politically-definitely not ideologically-amorphous. His greatest achievement, other than surviving the USA's prolonged economical war against him, might be his Latinizing of Marxism to make it more feasible to South America. Otherwise as Caistor relays, he was well aware that his Red God of Communism had miserably failed and he was its last surviving Prophet in a world which had moved on from him.

Castro's greatest failure, as this biography makes clear, was his inability to secure relevance. The USA, his eternal nemesis, not only outwaited him but also 'outprogressed' him; capturing all attention for itself while rendering him the devilish child of outdated ideals and an anti-progressive. The Latin American dictator who had once struck fear throughout the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis was soon forgotten after a few decades until ultimately his name was written out of history. He died a lonely death atop his island atoll with the knowledge that Cuba, like any other nation, would soon move on from his legacy and the future would not be of his design.
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Amarj33t_5ingh | Jul 8, 2022 |
I never get on that well with short stories. These ones were OK, but most of them I can't remember much detail about so I think they kind of went in one side and out the other.
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AlisonSakai | Nov 23, 2012 |
Chile in Focus is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Latin America's "success story".
 
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Obras
22
Also by
34
Membros
121
Popularidade
#164,307
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
3
ISBN
32
Línguas
3

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