<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">JOS</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&Eacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> M.  ALONSO-SED naci</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> en Santa Clara, Cuba. En la d</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&eacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">cada del sesenta vivi</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> en los Estados Unidos donde se recibi</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> de B.A. en Whitworth College. Despu</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&eacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">s termin</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> su M.A. y Ph.D. en el Canad</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&aacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, donde pas</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> veinte a</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&ntilde;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">os ense</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&ntilde;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">ando espa</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&ntilde;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">ol en varias universidades. Desde 1987 vive en el sur de California en donde se dedic</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> a la educaci</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">n en San Diego State University y otros <em>colleges</em>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN"> Jos</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">&eacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> M. Alonso-Sed was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. During the 1960s he lived in the United States where he received a bachelors of arts degree from Whitworth College. Afterwards, he completed his Masters and PH.D. degrees in Canada, where he spent twenty years teaching Spanish at several universities. Since 1987 he lives in southern California and teaches at San Diego State University and other colleges.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">La presente obra aparenta ser una novela hist</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">rica; sin embargo, el lector descubrir</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&aacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> de inmediato que se trata m</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&aacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">s bien una fantas</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">a pol</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">tica salpicada de mucha nostalgia. A ra</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">z de la muerte de &laquo;El Caballo&raquo;, m</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&aacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">ximo l</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">der de un pa</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">s caribe</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&ntilde;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">o, antiguos alumnos de una vieja academia militar en Jaimanitas (Cuba), se re</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&uacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">nen ah</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> para celebrar la llegada del libertador a la Isla (Capital). Si bien el capital inicia la destrucci</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">n de un fallido <em>ancien r</em></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&eacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">gime<a name="_GoBack"></a></span></em><span style="font-size: small;"> socialista, cabe preguntar si podr</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&aacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> abrir las puertas a una verdadera democracia en la vida p</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&uacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">blica de la Isla.</span></p>
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<p>This book purports to be a historical novel; however, the reader will immediately discover that it is none other than a political fantasy peppered with great nostalgia. Following the death of "The Horse", the maximum leader of a Caribbean country, alumni of an old military academy in Jaimanitas (Cuba) gather to celebrate the arrival of the liberator to the &#12288;island. While the new liberator initiates the destruction of the failed old socialist regime, the question arises as to whether you can open the doors to a true democracy in the island.</p>
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