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Two Spartan boys grow up together, and become inseparable friends.
One is a prince of Sparta, destined to rule this ancient Greek
state, the other a slave, or helot, who serves the young prince. In
the harsh training camps, or agoges, where boys are groomed to
become the great warriors of Spartan fame, their skills are honed
and brutally tested. Only citizens may aspire to the warrior's Red
Cloak, and one of the tests is the annual crypteia, or hunting of
the helots. A beautiful and mysterious young Sibyl speaks of an
uprising of the slaves. The Oracles warn of a deadly conflict
between two ruling factions. Evil forces will challenge the two
boys and test their loyalties, as secret truths about their own
identities are revealed.
On the day she is born, Josefina Navarro's nursemaid foretells
misfortune. But for the young socialite in pre-Castro Cuba, her
life in Havana with her Sergeant of police father is idyllic. That
is, until she falls in love with Lorenzo, a penniless man who takes
her away to the impoverished town of El Cotorro, and her father
disowns her. Josefina comes to wish her father dead but regrets it
after the Sergeant is assumed killed in a student-led riot. One
day, mysterious letters from the Sergeant begin to arrive, telling
her the truth about his past. The ghostly letters become her link
to love.
Set in Miami and Cuba and covering nearly fifty years of that
island's history, "Love and Ghost Letters" unfolds the lives of the
members of the Navarro-Concepcion families in the patterns and
permutations of memory, and conjures a Cuban setting that evokes
mysticism and magic.
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