{"product_id":"havana-year-zero-paperback","title":"Havana Year Zero - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarla Suárez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristina Macsweeney\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKarla Suárez\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Havana in 1969. In 2007 she was selected by Hay Festival to be part of the Bogotá 39 and in 2019, she received the Premio Iberoamericano Julio Cortázar. \u003cem\u003eHavana Year Zero\u003c\/em\u003e (originally published in 2011) is her third novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristina MacSweeney\u003c\/strong\u003e received the 2016 Valle Inclán prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli's \u003cem\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e, and her translation of Daniel Saldaña París' \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award. Other authors she has translated include: Elvira Navarro (\u003cem\u003eA Working Woman\u003c\/em\u003e), Verónica Gerber Bicecci (\u003cem\u003eEmpty Set\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003ePalabras migrantes\/ Migrant Words\u003c\/em\u003e), and Julián Herbert (\u003cem\u003eTomb Song; The House of the Pain of Others\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47251503415545,"sku":"9781913867003","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZzR5alhxOE1zWGFyWjhzenhyNE9uQT09.webp?v=1768673806","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/havana-year-zero-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}