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by Inés M. Llanos (Author)
Un viaje de Asturias a La Habana. La historia de los fundadores del restaurante ZARA el célebre cubano de Madrid
«Un texto honesto, limpio, ameno, emocionante, desgarrador, reconfortante y cálido. Un libro para entender lo complicada que puede llegar a ser la existencia y cómo el amor, repartido en dosis cotidianas, allana el camino hacia la felicidad . -Pedro Zuazua, El País
NOVELA BASADA EN HECHOS REALES
Pepe, un joven asturiano aficionado al dibujo que abandona la España de la posguerra y emigra a Cuba en busca de mejor fortuna, e Inés, una joven maestra cubana hija de emigrantes asturianos afincados en la isla, se conocen casualmente al pie de la escalinata del Centro Asturiano de la Habana al salir de un recital. A partir de ese encuentro, sus destinos se unirán para siempre.
"An honest, clean, entertaining, exciting, heartbreaking, soothing, and warm text. A book to understand how complicated life can be, and how love, dealt in daily doses, paves the way to happiness." --Pedro Zuazua, El País
A NOVEL BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.
Pepe, a young Asturian fond of drawing, leaves Spain after the Civil War and migrates to Cuba to make his fortune. Inés, a young Cuban teacher, the daughter of Asturian immigrants settled on the island, casually meets Pepe at the foot of the stairway, stepping out of a recital at the Asturian Center in Havana. From that brief encounter, their fates become forever intertwined. The story of two generations of immigrants that risked it all, sometimes to win, sometimes to lose. Struggle and work were their philosophy to face the blows of life. Family love was a shield and a sanctuary in adversity. With a moving and detailed style, Inés M. Llanos takes her family history to illuminate the journey of sacrifice and love her parents made from the revolutionary Havana to Madrid, via Asturias, the land of her ancestors, in what is meant to be an homage to the memory of everyday heroes that, same as them, knew how to overcome the ferocity of life, the separations, the injustice, the disappointments, and regardless of their suffering, looked for happiness and found it. The Teacher and the Painter speaks of dreams and hope, of the complexity of life, of the value of passion, of the revolution that changed everything, of the things they lost along the way and the ones brought about by the pain of that loss, of the grief over everything that could not be, and of the gratitude for what was given, of the importance of such a legacy.
Author Biography
Inés M. Llanos nació en La Habana en 1959. Tras el triunfo de la revolución, su familia se trasladó a España, primero a Asturias y luego a Madrid, donde sus padres y tíos fundaron en 1964 el restaurante cubano Zara. Estudió Filología Germánica y trabajó como librera varios años. Del año 2000 al 2003 realizó un curso de creación literaria en la Escuela de Letras de Madrid. Desde el año 2014 regenta junto a su marido el restaurante Zara que heredó de sus padres. La maestra y el pintor es su primera novela.
