Binding: Paperback
Description: A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona Havana and New York exploring displacement endurance and family as home. A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries Kantika song in Ladino follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th - century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way a failed marriage the need to earn a living but also passion pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage she faces her greatest challenge her disabled stepdaughter Luna whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity place and exile Kantika also reveals how the female body in work art and love serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women this lush lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only life.
Title: Kantika A Novel
Author(s): Graver Elizabeth
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250869838
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/16/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction