Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

Valladares spent twenty-two years in Cuban prisons for refusing to display a sign at work. His account of what was done to political prisoners — the beatings, the forced labour, the psychiatric interventions — was once dismissed by those who found Castro's Cuba ideologically convenient. The facts were later confirmed. The ideological convenience was never withdrawn. A book about suffering, and about wilful blindness.