Exit Permit: Scenes From an Exodus

By Eduardo F Pelaez and Eduardo F. Peláez

Felipe and Elena had known each other since their childhood days in Camag ey, Cuba. They started dating when they attended the University of Havana and a bright future awaited them. The course of their lives was altered with the implementation of a communist system in their island nation. Although their story as a couple is an imaginary one, it could be that of many Cubans whose careers were severed and whose hopes for a happy life in the country of their birth were destroyed. The narrative, in a series of scenes, some filled with drama, others sprinkled with humor, presents various historical events during the main decades of the Cuban exodus: the missile crisis, the Camarioca boatlift, the storming of the Peruvian Embassy; and difficult situations experienced both within and outside of Cuba: family separation, political asylum, and the required assimilation into a foreign culture. Emotional detachment is presented as the common denominator in the lives of Felipe and Elena: he in exile; she in a homeland that is no longer her own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1535232862
• ISBN13: 9781535232869
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"