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, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a purpose once more.&nbsp;What begins as an investigation into scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.

Havana Year Zero

Literature & Fiction

Suárez, Karla

United States

Charco Press

"Era como si hubiéramos alcanzado el punto crítico mínimo de una curva matemática. ¿Tiene presente una parábola? El cero de abajo, el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ahí llegamos."Corre el año 1993. Cuba está en lo más álgido del Período Especial, un profunda crisis económica tras el colapso del bloque soviético.Para Julia, una profesora de matemática que detesta enseñar, La Habana está en su año cero: el punto más bajo, camino a ninguna parte. Desesperada por tomar las riendas de su vida, Julia se une a Euclides, su colega y ex amante, para emprender la búsqueda del documento que compruebe que el teléfono fue inventado por Antonio Meucci, en La Habana. Creen que esta es la respuesta para proteger su reputación y darle a Cuba un nuevo propósito.A partir de este punto cero, Julia da inicio a una investigación que la acercará a dos hombres que prometen guiarla hasta el documento, y que la verá involucrada en un enredado misterio de pasión, legados familiares y las complejidades de cómo la gente encuentra maneras de sobrevivir en un país que vive la más terrible de sus crisis. 
"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. 
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, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a purpose once more. What begins as an investigation into scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.

Habana año cero (Spanish Edition)

En Objetos perdidos, Karla Suárez convierte la historia de Giselle en una apasionante búsqueda del lugar que ocupa una mujer en nuestro tiempo, así como de la capacidad creativa y destructiva que esconden las pasiones. 
Giselle lo ha sacrificado todo por un sueño: ser bailarina. Un sueño que parece escapársele. Una agria discusión con su novio y el robo de su bolso, en el que junto con su documentación y teléfono desaparecen también objetos que tienen un gran valor sentimental para ella, la dejan sola y perdida en la ciudad de Barcelona, lejos de su Cuba natal. Su única esperanza para salir de esa situación es dar con un amigo cubano del que sólo sabe que vive en algún lugar cercano a la Sagrada Familia. Durante tres días, Giselle duerme en la calle y vaga por los alrededores de la basílica buscando el modo de recuperar su vida, mientras reconstruye su propia historia familiar y hace balance del precio que ha debido pagar por ese sueño huidizo. 
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 
In Objetos perdidos (Lost and Found), Karla Suárez turns Giselle's story into an exciting search for the place that a woman occupies in our time, as well as for the creative and destructive capacity hidden by passions. 
Giselle has sacrificed everything for a dream: to be a dancer. A dream that seems to escape him. A bitter argument with her boyfriend and the theft of her purse, in which along with her documentation and phone also disappear objects that have a great sentimental value for her, leave her alone and lost in the city of Barcelona, far from her native Cuba. His only hope to get out of that situation is to find a Cuban friend who he only knows lives somewhere near the Sagrada Familia. For three days, Giselle sleeps on the street and wanders around the basilica looking for a way to get her life back, while she reconstructs her own family history and takes stock of the price she has had to pay for that elusive dream.

Objetos perdidos (Novela) / Lost and Found (A Novel) (Spanish Edition)

Planeta Publishing

Volumen recopilado por el profesor Eduardo Becerra que recoje textos en torno al cuento de la mano de los principales escritores del genero en espanol. Incluye un epilogo de Ricardo Piglia.

El arquero inmóvil: Nuevas poéticas sobre el cuento (Voces - Ensayos / Voices - Essay) (Spanish Edition)

VÁSQUEZ, JUAN GABRIEL

Fernández, Cristina

Neuman, Andrés

Vásconez, Javier

Fresán, Rodrigo

Cebrián, Mercedes

COHEN, MARCELO

Gómez, Sergio

Ovejero, José

Iwasaki, Fernando

Shua, Ana María

Tizón, Eloy

Zapata, Ángel

FADANELLI, GUILLERMO

Abad, Mercedes

González, Hipólito

Menéndez, Ronaldo

Rejtman, Martín

Andrés, Pablo

Enrique, Álvaro

Cerrada, Crsitina

Genre Fiction

Páginas de Espuma

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