{"product_id":"9781956763409","title":"A Greek Love","description":"Author: Zoe Valdes\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781956763409\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the \"Greek sailormen\u0026amp;#x27;s whore,\" teenager Ze becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain\u0026amp;#x27;s son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father\u0026amp;#x27;s Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutally throws her out of her home. Led by her mother, she leaves the city for refuge in Matanzas, a university town rich in Afro-Cuban culture, where her mother\u0026amp;#x27;s sister, a music scholar, lives and where she will raise her child mentored by these three older women - aunt, mother, and Osiris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears later, Ze's son, Petros, has become a world-class musician bridging Cuban and Greek traditions, while Ze has become a scholar herself. When a recording executive invites Petros to give concerts in Greece, Ze seeks permission from the authorities to leave the island and accompany him. Secretly - a secret they guard from the authorities and her father, now a Party stalwart - they both nourish the hope of somehow finding Petros's father and Ze's one great, lost love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith echoes of the breakout novel that made Zoe Valdes an international literary star, \u003ci\u003eA Greek Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of passion, endurance, and hope - and a woman\u0026amp;#x27;s tenacious love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;This spare, beautifully written novel encompasses the whole world and the enduring geography of love in all of its expressions. Zoe Valdes has given us a heroine whose fierce and loyallove of her family and families is inspiring and unforgettable. This novel is a journey and a mournful, joyous song.\u0026amp;#x27; - Marita Golden, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wide Circumference of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;[\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Greek Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis] a deceptively simple book, like all things Cuban. Zoe Valdes is so good at shining a light on the pages that are not there by showing us the ones that are. Her Cuban characters are brave, but they are also, realistically, a product of a totalitarian regime where silence is survival. All of that is present in this short page-turner. As is, of course, in true Valdes fashion: love.\u0026amp;#x27; - Vanessa Garcia, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Unforgettable.\u0026amp;#x27; - Daniel Fernndez,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNuevo Heraldo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;This novel lifts a song of hope.\u0026amp;#x27; - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe Soir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875642495134,"sku":"ADS-9781956763409","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781956763409.jpg?v=1779754411","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781956763409","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}