by Zoé Valdés · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408033196
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«Querido primer novio» is the romantic novel by Zoé Valdés, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (348 pages, in Spanish).
Dánae, a woman seeking to recover her dignity, embarks on a train journey that immerses her in memories of her youth. The plot alternates between the present and Cuba in the 1970s, when three teenagers experienced their first love at the «escuela al campo», near the Viñales Valley, amid frustrated desires and enveloping nature.
Published on 24 September 1999, it is part of Planeta's Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection. Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award in 2003.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and romance interested in rural Cuba and youthful loves.
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.
