A young man listens as his grandmother (Dolores) recounts stories
from her life, which he writes down in the hope of making sense of
them all. Following a fortune-telling Galician childhood and
romantic adventures with a much older lover, Dolores's story takes
her to Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century. Finding work as a
maid in the household of high ranking Cuban official Don Mario
Garcia Kohly, she finds herself immersed in a whirlwind of
political change. One night during a Santeria ceremony at a sugar
plantation, Dolores is blessed with the gift of ubiquity; the
ability to be in two places at once. When she falls pregnant as a
result of an illicit affair with Don Mario, one Dolores is sent
back to Galicia while another stays on in Cuba as the political
situation unfolds. Because Cuba is You is Ramon Chao's magical
realist account of his own family saga and the political maelstrom
into which he was born, tracing a personal and political line from
the Spanish-American War to the Spanish Civil War.
General
Imprint: |
Route Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2013 |
First published: |
November 2013 |
Authors: |
Ramon Chao
|
Translators: |
Ann Wright
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-901927-50-4 |
Subtitles: |
Spanish
|
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-901927-50-4 |
Barcode: |
9781901927504 |
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