Zoé Valdés has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators. The most-rated is The Weeping Woman.
La hija del embajador
Summary
Daniela, hija del embajador de Cuba en Francia, despierta a la pasión a la mano de un oscuro personaje de dudosas actividades. El erotismo furioso del romance se transforma en un acto de rebelión contra la opresión asfixiante de las buenas maneras de la diplomacia. Con su juventud y su rebeldía, el recorrido iniciático de Daniela es una metáfora perfecta de esa inasible condición llamada "cubanidad" y su exhuberante sensualidad caribeña se opone y se adapta a la vez, a la frialdad europea de París. Ganador del Premio de Novela Breve Juan March Cencillo, La hija del embajador es un relato explosivo, cargado el erotismo onírico y casi surrealista que caracteriza las mejores páginas de Zoé Valdés quien, desde La nada cotidiana, se ha consagrado como una de las voces más sugestivas de las letras latinoamericanas. Zoé Valdés (La Habana, Cuba, 2 de mayo de 1959- ). Escritora de narrativa y poesía, guionista y directora de cine, reside en París desde 1995 y nacionalizada española en 1996. Estudia los primeros cursos de Filología en la Universidad de La Habana. Se traslada a París, estudiando en la Alianza Francesa, donde trabaja como documentalista en la Delegación de Cuba ante la Unesco y en la Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba en París.
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Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada
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Born during the Cuban revolution in 1959, Yocandra learns that for a woman to survive in the world of communist machismo, she must use all her assets - her body, her wits, and most importantly, her ability to transform disillusionment into wonder.
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The Weeping Woman
Summary
Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés - a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter - is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement, until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends. The writer's research centers on a mysterious trip to Venice that Dora took 15 years later, in the company of two young gay men who were admirers of Picasso, including the biographer James Lord. After this episode, Dora cut off contact with the world and secluded herself in her Paris apartment until her death. "After Picasso, God," she would say. What happened in Venice? The more the writer investigates, the more she finds herself implicated in a story of passion taken to the extremes. In The Weeping Woman, prize-winning novelist Zoé Valdés narrates the journey of a woman who would do anything and everything for love. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for listeners interested in fiction - novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times best seller or a national best seller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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