{"product_id":"9780872866539","title":"A Corner of the World","description":"\"Mylene Fernandez offers us a magnificent gift. Her story of lost love and the difficult pursuit of literature is at the same time an X-ray of life in Havana, set in a present where glimpses of the future have not yet arrived.\"—\u003cb\u003eLeonardo Padura\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Loved Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e and the Mario Conde novels of Havana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn contemporary Havana, \"Do I stay or do I go?\" is always the question, and love doesn't necessarily conquer all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cautious, reserved professor of Spanish Literature, Marian has no idea that her quiet life is about to be turned upside down. When she's asked to review the work of a young, ambitious first-time novelist, she meets Daniel, and their love affair leads her to question both the choices she's made so far in her life and the opportunities she might yet still have.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheirs is the story of an intense and impossible love, set in today's Havana, a city where there can be no plans, where chance is the order of the day and a fierce sense of loyalty and pride coexists with the desire to live beyond the island's isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The fresh panorama of Cuban society today is painted without taboos or constraints, with a faith in human possibilities, and above all with a courage that stems from what is most legitimate and durable in ourselves.\"—\u003cb\u003eNancy Morejón\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eLooking Within: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePiedra Pulida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Corner of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is about desires and dreams, and, of course, about love.\"—\u003cb\u003eAchy Obejas\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDays of Awe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRuins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like the best of Truman Capote, another master of the short novel, Mylene Fernández gives us a cast of unforgettable characters: contradictory, complex, and human.\"—\u003cb\u003eFernando Pérez\u003c\/b\u003e, director of \u003ci\u003eSuite Habana, Life Is to Whistle,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMadagascar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To read this book is to encounter one of the best and most intimate works of Cuban literature of the 21st century.\"—\u003cb\u003eMabel Cuesta\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCuba post-soviética: un cuerpo narrado en clave de mujer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sad, erotic, tender, and sometimes ironic tale of passion and desertion. … the city becomes a co-protagonist, a confidante, a point of departure and return, and of waiting.\"—\u003cb\u003eSenel Paz\u003c\/b\u003e, novelist and screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eStrawberry and Chocolate, Things I Left in Havana,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn the Sky with Diamonds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131044315376,"sku":"9780872866539","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872866539_p0.jpg?v=1763838598","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872866539","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}