by Zoé Valdés · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742728855
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«Cher premier amour» is the love novel by Zoé Valdés, published by Actes Sud in paperback (331 pages, in French).
Danaé, a woman trapped in domestic life, embarks on a train journey to a mysterious Cuban valley that holds the memory of her adolescence. There, at thirteen, during classes in the countryside, she experienced a forbidden love; that return to the landscapes of childhood confronts her with memory, the land, and awakened desires.
Translated from Spanish (Cuba) by Liliane Hasson, it is part of the Lettres latino-américaines collection from Actes Sud. Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian fiction in 2003.
A read for those seeking contemporary narrative with a Cuban setting and stories of sentimental awakening and memory.
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.
