A Greek Love
A Novel of Cuba
Zoé Valdés, David Frye
- 168 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
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A Greek Love
A Novel of Cuba
Zoé Valdés, David Frye
Ă propos de ce livre
For readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the "Greek sailormen's whore, " teenager ZĂ© becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father's Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutally throws her out of her home. Led by her mother, she leaves the city for refuge in Matanzas, a university town rich in Afro-Cuban culture, where her mother's sister, a music scholar, lives and where she will raise her child mentored by these three older womenâaunt, mother, and Osiris. Years later, ZĂ©'s son, Petros, has become a world-class musician bridging Cuban and Greek traditions, while ZĂ© has become a scholar herself. When a recording executive invites Petros to give concerts in Greece, ZĂ© seeks permission from the authorities to leave the island and accompany him. Secretlyâa secret they guard from the authorities and her father, now a Party stalwartâthey both nourish the hope of somehow finding Petros's father and ZĂ©'s one great, lost love. With echoes of the breakout novel that made ZoĂ© ValdĂ©s an international literary star, A Greek Love is a tale of passion, endurance, and hopeâand a woman's tenacious love.