This title is from the well-loved storyteller. It is 1994. Castro's Cuba - repressive and corrupt - is no place to be young, idealistic and in love. Chris Sanchez, a newly-qualified paediatrician, feels loyalty to his country, yet is frustrated by the poverty and hardship suffered by all but the wealthy ruling elite. Chris and his friends, educated and ambitious, are nevertheless powerless to help their countrymen.When Chris falls in love with pretty, caring Eva, a nurse at the same hospital in Havana, he is torn between a misplaced sense of patriotic duty and his desire for a better life. As their relationship deepens, the two young people must confront a terrible choice...
- ISBN10 0727876775
- ISBN13 9780727876775
- Publish Date 6 May 2008 (first published 2 March 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English