Havana year zero / Karla Suárez ; translated by Christina MacSweeney.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2021Description: 256 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1913867005
- 9781913867003
- Habana año cero. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | SUAREZ, KARLA | Available | 33111010751648 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana.
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.
First published in Spanish as Habana año cero by Quetzal, 2011.