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Zusatztext "Passionate...satisfying." - Chicago Sun- Times "A rich! moving! musical novel." - Locus magazine "[An] ambitious novel." - Sun-Sentinel "Rich! satisfying...this work is an absolute delight." - Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Daína Chaviano is the award-winning author of several novels published in Spanish. Winner of the acclaimed Azorín Award for Best Novel for El hombre, la hembra y el hambre (Man, Woman and Hunger) , her most recent work, The Island of Eternal Love , was the recipient of the 2007 Florida Book Awards’ Gold Medal for Best Spanish Language Book and has been translated into twenty languages around the world. A Havana native, Chaviano has lived in Miami since 1991. Klappentext A magical new novel "of loss and love across more than a century of Cuba's past."(Chicago Sun-Times) 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. Zusammenfassung A magical new novel "of loss and love across more than a century of Cuba's past."( Chicago Sun-Times ) 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. ...
