by Zoe Valdes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742718733
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«Café Nostalgia» is the novel by Zoé Valdés, published by Actes Sud in paperback (400 pages, in French).
The novel revolves around a café that acts as a space of memory; Zoé Valdés explores nostalgia and the passage of time with a prose of sensory and emotional details. The characters live between memories and longings, marked by melancholy and the search for identity.
The edition is a translation from Cuban Spanish into French and was published by Actes Sud in 1998.
Zoé Valdés is a Cuban novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger. She studied at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for the Delegación de Cuba at UNESCO in Paris and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the magazine Cine Cubano. She lives with her daughter in Paris. She has been married three times: with Cuban writer Manuel Pereira Quintero, Cuban government official José Antonio González and Cuban independent filmmaker Ricardo Vega.
