Because Cuba is You - Softcover

Ramon Chao

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901927504 ISBN 13: 9781901927504

Publisher: Route Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

A young man listens as his grandmother (Dolores) recounts stories from her life, which he writes down in the hope of making sense of them all. Following a fortune-telling Galician childhood and romantic adventures with a much older lover, Dolores's story takes her to Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century. Finding work as a maid in the household of high ranking Cuban official Don Mario García Kohly, she finds herself immersed in a whirlwind of political change. One night during a Santería ceremony at a sugar plantation, Dolores is blessed with the gift of ubiquity; the ability to be in two places at once. When she falls pregnant as a result of an illicit affair with Don Mario, one Dolores is sent back to Galicia while another stays on in Cuba as the political situation unfolds. Because Cuba is You is Ramón Chao's magical realist account of his own family saga and the political maelstrom into which he was born, tracing a personal and political line from the Spanish-American War to the Spanish Civil War.

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About the Author

Ramón Chao (born 1935 in Vilalba, Lugo) is a Galician writer who emigrated to France in 1956 in order to escape Francisco Franco s regime. He was chief editor for the Latin American service of Radio France Internationale, and used to work for Le Monde and Le Monde diplomatique. In 1984 he created the Prix Juan Rulfo award for new Spanish language writers. He is the father of singer Manu Chao and radio maker Antoine Chao.

Edition details

• Publisher: Route Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901927504
• ISBN 13: 9781901927504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224