Havana Year Zero
Suárez, Karla, 1969-2021
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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.
Main title:
Havana Year Zero / Karla Suárez ; translated by Christina MacSweeney.
Author:
Suárez, Karla, 1969-, authorMacSweeney, Christina, translator
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2021.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781913867003 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.92
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
2530952
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