Zoe Valdes Books
La Cazadora de Astos
By Zoe Valdes
A tale about the passionate and secret life of Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter, and her magical relationship with a Cuban poet, an outspoken critic of the Castro regime.
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Yocandra in the paradise of nada
By Zoe Valdes
"Yocandra, the first-person narrator, was born (like Valdés herself) in Havana in 1959. Now a dispirited, outspoken woman living in Cuba, narrator writes of a reality of 'nothing' that contrasts po...
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I gave you all I had
By Zoe Valdes
"I Gave You All I Had introduces Cuca Martinez - a.k.a. Cuquita, Cuchita, the Girl - the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese...
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The weeping woman
By Zoe Valdes
"Winner of the prestigious Azoriń 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 w...
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