Also published in English as The Night Travelers, this sweeping new novel by Armando Lucas Correa (the best-selling author of The German Girl) follows four generations of women as they experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This special New York City launching of the original Spanish edition will be introduced by sociologist María Antonia Cabrera Arús, who will also lead a Q&A between the author and the audience.
This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
Baruch College
55 Lexington Ave. (off 24th St.), NYC
VC3 160 (3rd Floor, Room 160)
RSVP at: info@cubanculturalcenter.org
Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning Cuban journalist, editor, author, and the recipient of several awards from the Society of Professional Journalism and the National Association of Hispanic Publications. He was recognized by AT&T with The Humanity of Connection Award and as the Journalist of the Year by the Hispanic Public Relations Association of New York. Correa is the author of the international bestseller The German Girl, which is now being published in sixteen languages and has sold one million copies. He has also written In Search of Emma: How We Created Our Family and The Daughter’s Tale. With his most recent novel, The Nigh Travelers, won the Creative Writing Award of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his husband and their three children.
María Antonia Cabrera Arús (Ph.D., New School for Social Research) is a sociologist who studies the effects of fashion
and domestic material culture on regime stability and legitimation, focusing on state socialist regimes and the Caribbean region during the Cold War. Her research has been published in academic and mainstream journals and book anthologies, among other outlets. Cabrera Arús is the creator of the projects of digital scholarship Archive of Cuban Socialism (ArchCuS), a digital archive of Cuban material culture from the Cold War era, and Cuba Material, a blog she maintains since 2012. Cabrera Arús has lectured on material culture, fashion, archives and collections, civil society, and state socialist regimes at several universities in the United States and Europe. She presently teaches at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of NYU.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature of Baruch College
And 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 with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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