Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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- E-bokEngelska, 2016
169 kr
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Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso''s mistress, Dora Maar.A writer resembling Zoé Valdés—a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter—is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world''s avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso''s friends.The writer''s research centers on a mysterious trip to Venice that Dora took fifteen years later, in the company of two young gay men who were admirers of Picasso, including the biographer James Lord. After this episode, Dora cut off contact with the world and secluded herself in her Paris apartment until her death. "After Picasso, God," she would say. What happened in Venice? The more the writer investigates, the more she finds herself implicated in a story of passion taken to the extremes. In The Weeping Woman, prize-winning novelist Zoé Valdés narrates the journey of a woman who would do anything and everything for love.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. - E-bokEngelska, 2023
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For 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 A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the “Greek sailormen's whore,” teenager Zé becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father'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's sister, a music scholar, lives and where she will raise her child mentored by these three older women—aunt, mother, and Osiris. Years later, Zé’s son, Petros, has become a world-class musician bridging Cuban and Greek traditions, while Zé has become a scholar herself. When a recording executive invites Petros to give concerts in Greece, Zé 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 Zé’s one great, lost love. With echoes of the breakout novel that made Zoé Valdés an international literary star, A Greek Love is a tale of passion, endurance, and hope—and a woman's tenacious love. - Häftad, Franska, 2019
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- Häftad, Franska, 2019
697 kr
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- Häftad, Spanska, 2025
284 kr
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- Häftad, Spanska, 2020
277 kr
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- E-bokSpanska, 2020
96 kr
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Arsenio y Elbio, ambos octogenarios, el uno aún dentro de Cuba, el otro fuera, pero de visita en la isla después de más de cincuenta años de ausencia, son dos personajes que conversan sobre el pasado mientras entrevistan a otros personajes que, tímidamente, les van contando más detalles y dando claves sobre una época, una sociedad y un hombre político. Es una novela de largas conversaciones, que mezcla presente y pasado, y superpone planos de narración donde convergen un retrato y un relato histórico, no sólo del controvertido caudillo cubano, sino de la sociedad cubana actual y de lo que fue en la primera mitad del siglo XX. La primera novela que sin tapujos pone en una balanza a Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar en relación a su sucesor que los Estados Unidos diseñaron para Cuba. Una especie de ''Esperando a Godot'' de Samuel Beckett al estilo de Zoé Valdés - E-bokPDF, Franska, 2012
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Avec ma grand-mère, je m''arrêtais derrière les balustrades des fenêtres des voisines qui possédaient un téléviseur ; nous n''en avions pas chez nous, nous étions trop pauvres pour voir des films sur le petit écran. Là, le visage collé aux fers forgés, on contemplait le début de « L''Ange bleu » ; on voyait apparaître une main qui soulevait le rideau de fer d''une vitrine où une affiche annonçait le numéro de Lola-Lola ; une femme entrait dans le plan et lançait un seau d''eau sur la vitre. Je plongeais alors à la dérobée dans la léthargie et le désir, et me transformais en Lola-Lola, cette fille qui exhibait des jambes bien galbées et entonnait : « Je suis de la tête aux pieds faite pour l''amour. » Zoé Valdés rend un hommage littéraire et poétique à Marlene Dietrich et au célèbre film de Josef von Sternberg, qui fera de l''actrice allemande l''incarnation de la femme fatale et l''icône érotique des années trente. De Cuba à Paris, en passant par Berlin, la narratrice raconte comment Marlene Dietrich interprétant Lola-Lola, la petite danseuse du cabaret « L''Ange Bleu », a fait irruption dans sa vie d''enfant, puis de femme, jusqu''à hanter totalement son imaginaire. Ses aventures personnelles font renaître sous nos yeux, tour à tour, l''artiste, la séductrice, l''amante, la militante que fut Marlene Dietrich. Avec " L''Ange bleu " de Zoé Valdés le lecteur est transporté dans le monde du glamour en noir et blanc. Plus qu''une simple évocation du film, ce livre est le regard inspiré d''une narratrice spectatrice qui, par les charmes d''une écriture mélant humour et poésie, nous fait traverser la frontière entre l''art et la vie. Laissant émerger les souvenirs de son enfance dans les quartiers pauvres de La Havane, la narratrice nous raconte comment Marlene Dietrich transformée en Lola Lola, la petite danseuse du cabaret L''Ange bleu, a fait irruption à plusieurs reprises dans sa vie d?enfant, puis de femme, jusqu''à hanter complétement son imaginaire.
