Betty Viamontes

Candela's Secrets and Other Havana Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of the highly rated "Waiting on Zapote Street: Love and Loss in Castro's Cuba," an anthology that will take readers to Cuba and will keep them glued to each page. This collection is an exploration of social issues through stories and narrative poems, most of which are set on the location of the author's first novel, Waiting on Zapote Street. Meet the married woman who sells her body to tourists, the rafters who leave the coasts of Havana in search of freedom, the orphan boy who struggles to cope with the sudden loss of his parents. This anthology includes some of the characters of Waiting on Zapote Street, sometimes as protagonists, others in supporting roles. Candela's Secrets and Other Havana Stories shows the best and worst of human behavior. In it, readers step into the streets of Havana and witnesses the problems that plagued Cuban society, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s: prostitution, discontent, violence, and a deteriorating infrastructure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Betty Viamontes
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370541331
• Artikelnr.: 70466310

Autorenporträt

Betty Viamontes was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1980, at age fifteen, she and her family arrived in the United States on a shrimp boat to reunite with her father after twelve years of separation. "Waiting on Zapote Street," based on her family's story, her first novel won the Latino Books into Movies award and has been selected by many book clubs. She also published an anthology of short stories, all of which take place on Zapote Street and include some of the characters from her first novel.

Betty's stories have traveled the world, from the award-winning Waiting on Zapote Street to the No. 1 New Amazon re-leases "The Girl from White Creek," "The Pedro Pan Girls: Seeking Closure," and "Brothers: A Pedro Pan Story."

Other works include:
Havana: A Son's Journey Home
The Dance of the Rose
Under the Palm Trees: Surviving Labor Camps in Cuba
Candela's Secrets and Other Havana Stories
The Pedro Pan Girls: Seeking Closure
Love Letters from Cuba
Flight of the Tocororo

Betty Viamontes lives in Florida with her family and pursued graduate studies at the University of South Florida.