La Isla de Los Amores
The-Island-of-Eternal-Love
About the Book
Alone in a city that haunts her, far from her family, her history, and the island she left behind, Cecelia seeks refuge in a bar in Little Havana where a mysterious old woman's fascinating tale keeps Cecelia returning night after night. Her powerful story of long-vanished epochs weaves the saga of three families from far-flung pieces of the world whose connection forms the kind of family that Cecelia has long been missing-one cast from legendary, unbreakable love. As Cecelia falls under the story's heady sway, she discovers the source of the visions that plague her, and a link to the past she cannot shake.
ISBN-10: 0307376540 ISBN-13: 978-0307376541
About the AuthorDaína Chaviano's style bears no resemblance to other works by Latin American or Hispanic writers.Although Cuba is the point of departure in some of her novels, the ambience of these works more closely approximates Anglo-Saxon fantastic literature. She melds realistic and historical elements with aspects of science fiction, fantasy, eroticism, mythology, politics, and magic, all developed in a language filled with poetic, sensual imagery. Her books have been described as "wild experiments in genre-busting. It’s as if Ray Bradbury married Michael Ende and frolicked occasionally with Anaïs Nin.” (Críticas Magazine, USA, Jan-Feb. 2004). Her most recent novel, "La isla de los amores infinitos" (The Island of Eternal Love, Riverhead-Penguin),\ has been published in 25 languages. |
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