The simultaneous NYC launch of the Spanish and English editions of Karla Suárez‘s Havana Year Zero (Habana Año Cero). The novel takes place in the year 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 by Antonio Meucci. 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.
The author will be interviewed by literary critic Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, followed by a Q&A moderated by poet and essayist Lourdes Gil. This event resumes our Literature Program’s bilingual series on contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American authors, curated by Gil and Herrera.
This special literary event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in English and Spanish, with English subtitles.
DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, THIS PROGRAM WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
Please click on this link on the scheduled date and time:
https://youtu.be/P2vmCxjMrPE
Writer Karla Suárez (Havana, 1969) is the author of short stories, novels, and travel chronicles. Her novels include, among others, El hijo del héroe/The Son of the Hero, Habana año cero/Havana Year Zero (Premio Carbet del Caribe, France 2012/ English PEN Award UK 2020) and Silencios/Silent (Premio Lengua de Trapo, 1999). She has also published books of short stories, including Carroza para actores and Espuma, as well as several travel books in collaboration with the photographer Francesco Gattoni. Her stories and novels have been translated into a dozen languages. She is the recipient of several literary awards, including a special recognition by the National Book Center of France. She has conducted writing workshops and written for various newspapers. After living in Havana, Rome, and Paris, she now resides in Lisbon, where she is the Reading Club coordinator at Cervantes Institute. She also teaches at the Escuela de Escritores in Madrid. (www.karlasuarez.com).
To purchase Habana año cero or Havana Year Zero, click here:
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This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.
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