The writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante grew up in Cuba under the dictator Batista, knew Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and now lives in England as an exile. This work contains a collection of his writings on Cuba from 1968 to 1992, exploring the nature of the Cuban Revolution and of Fidel Castro.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante has written novels, stories, critical essays, articles and screenplays, and has lectured at universities from Cambridge to Chicago. He grew up in Cuba under the dictator Batista, knew Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and now lives in England as an exile. This work contains a collection of his writings on Cuba from 1968 to 1992, exploring the nature of the Cuban Revolution and - as Cabrera Infante sees it - its evil genius, Fidel Castro.