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Havana year zero / Karla Suárez ; translated by Christina MacSweeney.

by Suárez, Karla, 1969-

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Charco Press, 2021.

Telephone -- History -- Fiction.

Mathematics -- Fiction.

Inventions -- Fiction.

Havana (Cuba) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.

9781913867003 (trade pbk.)

Habana año cero. English.

256 p. ; 20 cm.

First published in Spanish as Habana año cero by Quetzal, 2011.

Translated from the Spanish.

"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." --back cover.

Cuban fiction -- Translations into English.

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