Against All Hope, Armando Valladares Translated by Andrew Hurley
Against All Hope, Armando Valladares Translated by Andrew Hurley
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Against All Hope
The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares

Author: Armando Valladares; Translated by Andrew Hurley

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 17 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/25/2009

Synopsis

This is a history of the Cuban Revolution as viewed from its dungeons. Armando Valladares describes his twentytwo years of torment and triumph in Castros prison. Arrested at the age of twentytwo for being philosophically opposed to communism, he gives a dramatic and harrowing account of the regular beatings, the hunger, the humiliation, and the psychological experimentation to which the Cuban Revolution subjected its unrepentant enemies. However, Valladaress hope and courage transcended these horrors, showing us the heroic possibilities of one possessing unshaken faith. More than an indictment of a cruel regime, this book is a testimony to the power of biblical faith to allow a man to survive against all hope.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Silvia on June 18, 2009

Castro is a disgusting excuse of a human being. There is a special place in hell reserved for people like him.......more

Goodreads review by Carol Bakker on October 18, 2020

This is a five-star book, but I did not love it. My soul is gutted, shredded, scraped, pierced. I will be back with more thoughts when I recover equilibrium. Update: This video is a summary of Armando's story in seven minutes. I highly recommend it. Warning: a real execution is shown at 0:50 - 0:55. V......more

Goodreads review by JoséMaría on December 15, 2014

Mandatory reading (along with Jorge Masetti's In the Pirate's Den, which allows to see the other side: the middle-class, comfortable punk turned communist, the appropriate acolyte for Castro's genocide). This book is a victory of faith and resilience against totalitarianism. Castro deceived the poor,......more

Goodreads review by Mad Russian on September 29, 2019

I had some difficulty getting through this book, not because of bad writing (the writing is excellent), but because it hits close to home. The account of this man and those he knew who suffered under communism in Cuba will be like the millions of average citizens in the USA who will have to suffer s......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 28, 2012

The author was a political prisoner in Cuba for twenty years for refusing to support Fidel Castro. Castro treated his political prisoners harshly. I'll never forget his description of the prisoners being forced to wade through a ditch filled with excrement. In contrast, Castro enjoyed a comfortable......more

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