Nuno

Born as he was, the son of a suicidal policeman and a self-destructive woman of ill-repute, Nuno arrived in the world with a capable heart and a mind ready to explore the mysteries of life.

Nuno is evidence that the human experience can never be untangled from the unfurling of history, that we are all creatures of our time even though time can never define us. Though our quarrelling natures visit travesties upon the world, we also accept, as Nuno does, that our capacity to connect will ripple outward enriching all who would recognize the infinite within an action. In the juxtaposition of our ferocious capacity for violence and the limitless potential of our capacity for love, Nuno embodies the paradox of the human experience, that our momentary existance is an artifact of eternity.

Through Nuno -in his discovery of love and through his crucible as a political prisoner in communist Cuba- we, the lucky readers who have discovered this tale, are given a chronicle of one man's discovery of both the timeliness and timelessness of the human experience and the healing balm love provides even in the darkest crises of the soul.