Freedom is a feast a novel
"In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the coastal jungles of Venezuela. There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the coastal jungles of Venezuela. There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their romance is upended by a decision with consequences that will echo down through the generations. Almost forty years later, in a poor barrio of Caracas, María, a single mother, ekes out a precarious existence as a housekeeper, pouring her love into Eloy, her young son. Her devotion will not be enough, however, to keep them from disaster. On the eve of the attempted coup against President Chávez, Eloy is wounded by a stray bullet, fracturing María's world. Amid the chaos at the hospital, she encounters Stanislavo, now a newspaper editor. Even as the country itself is convulsed by waves of unrest, this twist of fate forces a belated reckoning for Stanislavo, who may yet earn a chance to atone for old missteps before it's too late"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 438 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780316571791 0316571792 9780316571784 0316571784 |
| Author Notes: | Alejandro Puyana, who came to the United States from Venezuela at the age of twenty-six, received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His work has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The American Scholar, and elsewhere, and his story "Hands of Dirty Children" was reprinted in Best American Short Stories . He lives with his wife (the writer Brittani Sonnenberg) and daughter in Austin, Texas. |
