Azúcar Prieta - Couverture souple

Distel, Edward C

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235418332

Editeur : Edward Distell, 2026

Synopsis

Havana, late 1825. Diego Armas Montoya arrives from Tenerife with forty-three pesos, a letter of introduction, and a ledger hand three merchants have called the best they've employed. He does not yet know it will be enough.

Sent to audit the debt-ridden Villanueva sugar estate in Matanzas, Diego finds a plantation held together by Isabel Villanueva - a woman running an inheritance the law will not fully recognize as hers - and a set of account books hiding a secret that could destroy the family that shelters it. As boundary disputes, colonial law, and a captain with his own reasons for watching the estate close in, Diego and Isabel must decide what honesty costs, and who is permitted to pay it.

Azúcar Prieta is a historical novel about ledgers and mercy, land and law, and the particular arithmetic of a colonial world where every number conceals a name.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.

Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.

He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.

These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Distell
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235418332
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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