by Zoé Valdés · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408051091
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«Lobas de mar» is the historical novel by Zoé Valdés published by Planeta in paperback (242 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the 18th-century Caribbean, the novel follows Ann Bonny and Mary Read, two women destined for submission in a man-governed world. Their craving for freedom and desire for new experiences drive them to carve a place in piracy and become two feared figures of those waters.
The novel won the Fernando Lara Novel Prize 2003; it was originally published in 2003 under the title «Lobas del mar».
For readers of adventures set in the Caribbean, with female protagonists and a backdrop of piracy.
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.
