Kantika a novel
"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 star...
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New York :
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company,
2024.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Kantika : |b a novel / |c Elizabeth Graver. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, |c 2024. | ||
| 300 | |a 287 pages | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a "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." -- Provided by publisher | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Arranged marriage |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Self-realization in women |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Barcelona (Spain) |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | |a Domestic fiction. | ||
| 949 | |a schlow |b SAPAB |c Graver |d i |e 39635104586437 |f 768418 |g loc |j 04/09/2024 | ||
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