A Cuban American woman searches for her long-lost mother and fights to restore a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco home in the heart of Havana in this moving, immersive new mystery, perfect for fans of Of Women and Salt. Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes’s life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes’s hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three years earlier, in 1986, an American college student with endless political optimism falls deliriously in love with a handsome Cuban soldier while on a spontaneous visit to the island. She decides to stay permanently, but soon discovers that nothing is as it seems in Havana. The two women’s stories proceed in parallel as Mercedes gets closer to the truth about her mother, uncovering shocking family secrets in the process . . .
Teresa Dovalpage Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Teresa Dovalpage je kubánská autorka, jejíž díla se ponořila do složitosti identity a exilu. Její romány, oceněné za svou literární kvalitu, často zkoumají témata ztráty, paměti a hledání domova v cizích zemích. Dovalpage, ovlivněná svou vlastní zkušeností s emigrací, přináší do své prózy hluboký vhled do psychologických dopadů přesídlení. Její styl, charakterizovaný pronikavými postavami a precizním jazykem, rezonuje s čtenáři hledajícími autentické zobrazení latinskoamerických zkušeností.
Death Under The Perseids
- 336 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
There’s no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa Dovalpage's addictively clever new Havana mystery. Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize seem a little suspicious to Mercedes, Nolan’s current unemployment and their need to spice up their marriage make the decision a no-brainer. Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo: former University of Havana professor Selfa Segarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish writer Javier Jurado. Even stranger: they also received a free cruise. When Selfa disappears on their first day at sea, Mercedes and Javier begin to wonder if their presence on the cruise is more than coincidence. Mercedes confides her worries to her husband, but he convinces her that it’s all in her head. However, when Javier dies under mysterious circumstances after disembarking in Havana, and Nolan is nowhere to be found, Mercedes scrambles through the city looking for him, fearing her suspicions were correct all along.
La Regenta en La Habana
- 200 stránek
- 7 hodin čtení
"Yoana es profesora de literatura en la Universidad de La Habana. Su tesis sobre La Regenta de Alas Clarín, la distrae y la evade de su aburrida y monótona realidad: un marido jubilado antes de tiempo que sólo hace que ver la televisión, y un trabajo de docente en la universidad, donde el rígido sistema y las malas intenciones de los que son tanto o más duros que el propio régimen no le permiten hacer las cosas como le gustaría. La aparición de un bulto en su pecho coincide con el huracán pasional que la removerá al conocer a Yosván, un alumno de quien se acabará enamorando a pesar de su propia resistencia inicial y a sabiendas de que lo pone absolutamente todo en juego."--Cover jacket