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Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada - 9781559703628

Un libro in lingua di Zoe Valdes Cienfuegos Sabina (TRN) Sabina Cienfuegos edito da Little Brown & Co, 1997

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"Yocandra, the first-person narrator, was born (like Valdâes herself) in Havana in 1959. Now a dispirited, outspoken woman living in Cuba, narrator writes of a reality of 'nothing' that contrasts poignantly with that of a gusana friend in Madrid with whom she exchanges letters. This colloquial, idiomatic translation of La nada cotidiana reflects work's humor and word play. Brief but helpful translator's notes"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Born the year of Castro's revolution, Yocandra grows up to see how the regime is turning her island into a wasteland of despair, and she finds that by escaping into a world of dreams, humor, and sex, she can cope with life in Cuba

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