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- Author: Karla Suárez
- Publisher: Charco Press
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 256
- ISBN-10: 1913867005
- ISBN-13: 9781913867003
- Format: 12.5 x 19.6 x 2.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's 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, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a purpose once more. What begins as an investigation into scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.
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- Author: Karla Suárez
- Publisher: Charco Press
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 256
- ISBN-10: 1913867005
- ISBN-13: 9781913867003
- Format: 12.5 x 19.6 x 2.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's 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, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a purpose once more. What begins as an investigation into scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.
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