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Kantika : a novel
Audience Adults
Published [2023] by Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, New York
ISBN 9781250869845
Bib Id 1218760
Edition First edition.
Description 287 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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9781250869845 (hardcover) $28.00
1250869846
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FIC Graver
Title
Kantika : a novel
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
[2023] by Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, New York :
Description
287 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary
"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way--a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge--her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body--in work, art and love--serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only life." --Amazon.
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Domestic fiction.
Religious fiction
Religious fiction
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