Havana Year Zero - Couverture souple

Suárez, Karla

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913867005 ISBN 13 : 9781913867003

Editeur : Charco Press, 2021

Synopsis

It was as if wed reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. Thats how low we sank. The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, Havana is at Year Zero: the lowest possible point, going nowhere. Desperate to seize control of her life, Julia teams up with her colleague and former lover, Euclid, to seek out a document that proves the telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci in Havana, convinced it is the answer to secure their reputations and give Cuba a purpose once more.  From this point zero, Julia sets out on an investigation to befriend two men who could help lead to the documents whereabouts, and must pick apart a tangled mystery of sex, family legacies and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.

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Karla Suárez Karla Suárez was born in Havana in 1969. Since her childhood, she has been passionate about mathematics, writing stories, and music. She studied classical guitar and has a degree in electronic engineering, a profession she continues to develop. Suárez is the author of five collections of short stories and four novels. Her novels received many awards, such as the Lengua de Trapo Prize for her 1999 debut novel Silencios (Silences ); and the Prix Carbet of the Caribbean and Tout-Monde and the Insular Book Prize, both in France, in 2012. Many of her stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines published in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Several of her stories have been adapted for television and theatre. Suárez has received several creative grants, including the one awarded by the National Book Center of France (CNL). In 2007, she was selected by the Hay Festival and Bogota World Book Capital, as one of 39 representative young writers of Latin America. She lives in Lisbon, where she coordinates the Reading Club of the Cervantes Institute and works as a writing teacher at the Writers' School in Madrid.

Christina MacSweeney received the 2016 Valle Inclán prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth, and her translation of Daniel Saldaña París' Among Strange Victims was a finalist for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award. Other authors she has translated include: Elvira Navarro (A Working Woman ), Verónica Gerber Bicecci (Empty Set; Palabras migrantes/ Migrant Words ), and Julián Herbert (Tomb Song; The House of the Pain of Others ).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Charco Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913867005
• ISBN 13: 9781913867003
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible