"Era como si hubieramos alcanzado el punto critico minimo de una
curva matematica. ?Tiene presente una parabola? El cero de abajo,
el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ahi llegamos."Corre el ano 1993. Cuba
esta en lo mas algido del Periodo Especial, un profunda crisis
economica tras el colapso del bloque sovietico.Para Julia, una
profesora de matematica que detesta ensenar, La Habana esta en su
ano cero: el punto mas bajo, camino a ninguna parte. Desesperada
por tomar las riendas de su vida, Julia se une a Euclides, su
colega y ex amante, para emprender la busqueda del documento que
compruebe que el telefono fue inventado por Antonio Meucci, en La
Habana. Creen que esta es la respuesta para proteger su reputacion
y darle a Cuba un nuevo proposito.A partir de este punto cero,
Julia da inicio a una investigacion que la acercara a dos hombres
que prometen guiarla hasta el documento, y que la vera involucrada
en un enredado misterio de pasion, legados familiares y las
complejidades de como la gente encuentra maneras de sobrevivir en
un pais que vive la mas terrible de sus crisis. "It was as if we'd
reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine
a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's 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
document's 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. It was as if we'd reached
the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a
parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's 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,
this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out
appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the
telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give
Cuba a purpose once more. What begins as an investigation into
scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family
legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in
a country at its lowest ebb.
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