{"product_id":"a-greek-love-a-novel-of-cuba","title":"A Greek Love - A Novel of Cuba","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression.A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the “Greek sailormen's whore,  teenager Ze becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father's Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutally throws her out of her home. Led by her mother, she leaves the city for refuge in Matanzas, a university town rich in Afro-Cuban culture, where her mother's sister, a music scholar, lives and where she will raise her child mentored by these three older women-aunt, mother, and Osiris.and Years later, Ze's son, Petros, has become a world-class musician bridging Cuban and Greek traditions, while Ze has become a scholar herself. When a recording executive invites Petros to give concerts in Greece, Ze seeks permission from the authorities to leave the island and accompany him. Secretly-a secret they guard from the authorities and her father, now a Party stalwart-they both nourish the hope of somehow finding Petros's father and Ze's one great, lost love.and With echoes of the breakout novel that made Zoe Valdes an international literary star,and A Greek Loveand is a tale of passion, endurance, and hope-and a woman's tenacious love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zoé Valdés","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44235949539388,"sku":"9781956763409","price":2697.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9781956763409_201_6f4e8e5a-9f7d-4313-b950-2106f2b18345.jpg?v=1776787669","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/a-greek-love-a-novel-of-cuba","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}