The Cutter (PIONEERS OF MODERN US HISPANIC LITERATURE)

When young Julian Campos attempted to leave Cuba five years ago, the Castro regime allowed his parents to travel on, but kept him back at the last moment. Julian was forced to become a cutter, laboring day after day in the muddy sugarcane fields. Now it seems he may have found a way out -- but is it impossibly dangerous? Julian has reached a point at which hope and forgiveness seem to be his enemies, and the shadows his only friends.