ANA MENENDEZ

Por amor al Che es la primera novela de Ana Menéndez, una de las voces norteamericanas, de raíz latina, más sólidas de los últimos años. La obra empieza en el Miami actual, donde una joven cubana ha estado tratando de averiguar detalles de la vida de su madre biologica. Lo unico que sabe es que llego a Miami huyendo de La Habana con su abuelo en los años sesenta. Pero un dia llega una caja con fotos y cartas que le dan mas prisas. Empieza asi una serie de viajes a Cuba para ir componiendo el rompecabezas de la vida de su madre, su relacion amorosa con el Che. Primera novela de Ana Mendez, un retrato brillante de la Cuba de principios de la Revolucion.

From the critically acclaimed author of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd comes a new novel about the search for freedom and the power of community that spans decades of residents in one Florida apartmentThe Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry his lover, all of whom live together; a Tajik building manager with a secret identity; and a troubled young refugee named Lenin. Each tenant imbues 2B with energy that will either heal or overwhelm its latest resident, Lana, a mysterious woman struggling with her own past.Examining exile, homesickness, and displacement, The Apartment asks whatin our violent and lonely centurydo we owe one another? If alone we are powerless before sorrow and isolation, it is through community and the sharing of our stories that we may survive and persevere.