num_pages: 256
description: It was as if wed reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down at the bottom of an abyss. Thats how low we sank.The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching Havana is at Year Zero: the lowest possible point going nowhere. Desperate to seize control of her life Julia teams up with her colleague and former lover Euclid to seek out a document that proves the telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci in Havana convinced it is the answer to secure their reputations and give Cuba a purpose once more.From this point zero Julia sets out on an investigation to befriend two men who could help lead to the documents whereabouts and must pick apart a tangled mystery of sex family legacies and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.WINNER Carbet de la Carabe et du Tout-monde (2012)WINNER Insular Book Award (France 2012)
language: English
title: Havana Year Zero
publisher: Charco Press