Betty Viamontes

Under the Palm Trees: Surviving Labor Camps In Cuba Betty Viamontes

From the author of the award-winning "Waiting on Zapote Street" comes a story based on true events. In 1960's central Cuba, a young middle-class woman's life is interrupted as she finds herself a victim in what will quickly become a hurricane of world politics and idealistic dogma. "Betty Viamontes's books are not intended to be classic literature. Instead they are deliberately simple, about real people caught in an historical cataclysm. Like most holocaust memoirs, their strength lies in their simplicity. Ms. Viamontes tells a simple story of normal people, allowing the reader's imagination to fill in the detail. The result stays with you, long after the final virtual page is turned." Dr. Allen Witt.