by Zoé Valdés · Editorial Planeta Mexicana Sa De cv · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408021773
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«Café Nostalgia» is the novel by Cuban writer Zoé Valdés, published by Planeta in hardcover (361 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Marcela, a woman who shuns fame and takes refuge in the memory of her exiled friends. Amid memories, dreams and a silenced crime, she also carries the omen of an old santero. The narrative combines the Cuba of blackouts, Parisian settings and the nostalgia of exile with erotic fragments and a love story.
«Café Nostalgia» belongs to Planeta's Colección Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos; the back cover mentions that Zoé Valdés was a finalist for the 1996 Premio Planeta with «Te di la vida entera».
For readers of Spanish-language fiction interested in Cuban literature and stories about exile and memory.
Zoé Valdés is a Cuban novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger. She studied at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for the Delegación de Cuba at UNESCO in Paris and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the magazine Cine Cubano. She lives with her daughter in Paris. She has been married three times: with Cuban writer Manuel Pereira Quintero, Cuban government official José Antonio González and Cuban independent filmmaker Ricardo Vega.
