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BOOK
Title Cantoras / Carolina De Robertis
Imprint New York : Vintage Books, 2020

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Romaner på engelska  Roman engelska    DUE 24-04-12  
Edition First edition
Descript 317 pages 21 cm
Note First published: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019
Originalupplaga 2019
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find each other as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet, despite such societal realities, Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus," Paz, and Malena--five cantoras, women who "sing"--somehow, miraculously, find each other and discover an isolated cape, Cabo Polonio, inhabited by just a lonely lighthouse keeper and a few rugged seal hunters. They claim this place as their secret sanctuary. Over the next 35 years, their lives move back and forth between Cabo Polonio and Montevideo, the city they call home, as they return, sometimes together, sometimes in pairs, with lovers in tow, or alone. Throughout it all, the women will be tested repeatedly--by their families, lovers, society, and each other--as they fight to live authentic lives. A genre-defining novel and De Robertis's masterpiece, Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love, community, forgotten history, and the strength of the human spirit. De Robertis has written a novel that is at once timeless and groundbreaking--a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn
Subject Kvinnlig vänskap
Lesbiska kvinnor
Homosexualitet
Självförverkligande
Minoriteter
Queer
HBTQ-personer
Female friendship -- Fiction
Lesbians -- Fiction
Sexual minority community -- Uruguay -- Fiction
Homosexuality -- Government policy -- Uruguay -- Fiction
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
Uruguay -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Fiction
Polonio, Cape (Uruguay) -- Fiction
Montevideo (Uruguay) -- Fiction
Uruguay -- Fiction
Uruguay
Romaner
Classmark 813/.6
He.01
ISBN/ISSN 9780525563433 pbk
0525563431 pbk
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