Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 oppressionA free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the Greek sailormen's whore, teenager Ze 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 women aunt, mother, and Osiris.Years later, Zes son, Petros, has become a world-class musician bridging Cuban and Greek traditions, while Ze has become a scholar herself. When a recording executive invites Petros to give concerts in Greece, Ze seeks permission from the authorities to leave the island and accompany him. Secretly a secret they guard from the authorities and her father, now a Party stalwart they both nourish the hope of somehow finding Petross father and Zes one great, lost love.With echoes of the breakout novel that made Zoe Valdes an international literary star, A Greek Love is a tale of passion, endurance, and hope and a woman's tenacious love.'This spare, beautifully written novel encompasses the whole world and the enduring geography of love in all of its expressions. Zoe Valdes has given us a heroine whose fierce and loyal love of her family and families is inspiring and unforgettable. This novel is a journey and a mournful, joyous song.' Marita Golden, author of The Wide Circumference of Love'[A Greek Love is] a deceptively simple book, like all things Cuban. Zoe Valdes is so good at shining a light on the pages that are not there by showing us the ones that are. Her Cuban characters are brave, but they are also, realistically, a product of a totalitarian regime where silence is survival. All of that is present in this short page-turner. As is, of course, in true Valdes fashion: love.' Vanessa Garcia, author of White Light'Unforgettable.' Daniel Fernandez, Nuevo Heraldo'This novel lifts a song of hope.' Le Soir 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781956763409

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A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba

Vald� s, Zo�

Published by Arcade (2023)

ISBN 10: 1956763406 ISBN 13: 9781956763409

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