Havana Year Zero
- Schrijfster: Karla Suárez (Cuba)
- Soort boek: Cubaanse roman
- Origineel: Habana año cero (2011)
- Engelse vertaling: Christina MacSweeney
- Uitgever: Charco Press
- Verschijnt: 23 februari 2021
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
Waardering voor de roman
- “The Name of The Rose is set in Cuba and is now called Havana Year Zero (…) A masterpiece.” (Marie Claire France)
- “An impressive novel.” (Le Figaro Littéraire)
Flaptekst van de roman van Karla Suárez
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, 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.