Yocandra In The Paradise of Nada

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"A bawdy, erotic, and existential novel . . . literate and funny, poignant and realistic . . . glows with life and energy."
—Washington Times
"Irreverent and sexy a knockout." —Miami Herald
"Zestful . . . A sexually forthright and amusing contemporary Candide."
— Kirkus
"Zoé Valdés writes with passionate energy, evoking quick, bold, colorful images and emotions." —Richmond Times-Dispatch
Searing and sensual, earthy and elegiac, this novel tells the story of a young woman at sea in a land where the sterility of government dogma belies the verdancy of the vegetation —a tropical nada.
Born in the year of Castro's Revolution, the daughter of a hero of the sugarcane harvest—Che Guevara himself draped a Cuban flag across her mother's pregnant belly—Yocandra embodies its promise and hope. But she grows up to see how the regime is turning her beautiful island into a wasteland of despair, and embarks on her own course of survival. For Yocandra and her friends, coping with life in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"A bawdy, erotic, and existential novel . . . literate and funny, poignant and realistic . . . glows with life and energy."
—Washington Times
"Irreverent and sexy a knockout." —Miami Herald
"Zestful . . . A sexually forthright and amusing contemporary Candide."
— Kirkus
"Zoé Valdés writes with passionate energy, evoking quick, bold, colorful images and emotions." —Richmond Times-Dispatch
Searing and sensual, earthy and elegiac, this novel tells the story of a young woman at sea in a land where the sterility of government dogma belies the verdancy of the vegetation —a tropical nada.
Born in the year of Castro's Revolution, the daughter of a hero of the sugarcane harvest—Che Guevara himself draped a Cuban flag across her mother's pregnant belly—Yocandra embodies its promise and hope. But she grows up to see how the regime is turning her beautiful island into a wasteland of despair, and embarks on her own course of survival. For Yocandra and her friends, coping with life in Cuba means escaping into dreams, humor, and sex, and developing an appetite for the absurdities of existence. Kindred spirits and lost souls, their rebellion and rage against El Comandante and his rule also express their fierce love for their country, a patriotism that can feel like a prison sentence. Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada has become an international phenomenon, establishing Cuban writer Zoé Valdés as one of the most acclaimed new voices in world literature.
Zoé Valdés was born in Havana in 1959. She currently lives in exile in Paris. She is also the author of I Gave You All I Had, published by Arcade. Vissza