El vampirismo y especialmente el amor verdadero son los temas esenciales sobre los que gira esta obra, si bien est n acompa ados de otros temas secundarios tales como la amistad, el miedo, el peligro, la cultura y tradiciones cubanas, la seducci n, la atracci n, las dudas, el sexo, los reproches, la culpa, la maternidad, la b squeda de la felicidad, las opciones vitales, la elecci n, la emigraci n, la muerte, el asesinato, las decisiones, el comunismo, los matrimonios de conveniencia, la entrega o el sacrificio. La sensualidad y el amor de verdad llenan la vida de tres j venes cubanas y de sus amantes, cada una de las parejas disfruta del amor en toda la extensi n de la palabra, aman por encima de todas las cosas. Pero la vida de las tres mujeres cambiar para siempre cuando una adivina les informe de que son las elegidas para seguir los pasos de la Diosa Luna, que se convertir n en vampiras las noches de luna llena, y que la nica forma de romper este hechizo ser que ellas mismas acaben con sus verdaderos amores. Poco a poco, y llevadas por la necesidad de sangre, las tres mujeres se meter n en una vor gine de sangre y asesinatos que llevar n al teniente Rolando a comenzar una investigaci n, que acabar con un resultado de lo m s inesperado. Ser n capaces las j venes de sacrificar sus vidas para proteger a sus amores? Ser n descubiertas finalmente por la polic a? Una novela cargada de pasi n, sensualidad y amor de verdad, donde encontramos un trasfondo de denuncia social soprendente y, por supuesto, verdadero.
The story of Nadine takes you on an emotionally rich rollercoaster. A horrific marriage sends Nadine in a fight or flight situation that finally ends her hidden secrets of abuse. A split-second reaction to save herself from a dramatic act of violence changes the course of her journey forever.Forced to enter into a different world by her actions, Nadine struggles with the demons from her past, until a glimmer of hope for a different future, comes in the form of Linfred Carter, an ambitious attorney who sets out to change the course of her life.
London 1974 - and Peter Greenberg is riding high. Thanks to his magic touch, every play he puts on in Theatreland is a hit and the money is rolling in. The young man's empire feels secure - but then everything changes. One evening, he calls in to see a rival's musical and falls head over heels in love.The beautiful Paris-born dancer who catches his eye is Nadine - a major star in the making. Like Greenberg, the young dancer too is in love - but with someone else. The eternal triangle is complicated by the birth of a child, and by tragic secrets that go back before World War Two; slowly, those secrets reveal themselves in a drama that out-performs anything on the West End stage or Broadway.Nadine is a poignant story of unrequited love, a love that will one day be returned - and in a most unexpected way...
South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel, Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also become something of a test case for feminist critics of Gordimer's writing. This casebook includes an interview with and an essay by Nadine Gordimer on the novel, classic and recent critical essays, an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts and the literary reception, and a bibliography.
Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July's People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race, gender and identity.This guide to Gordimer's compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of July's People a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on July's People, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key approaches identified in the critical surveycross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of July's People and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Gordimer's text.
Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July's People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race, gender and identity.This guide to Gordimer's compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of July's People a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on July's People, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key approaches identified in the critical surveycross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of July's People and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Gordimer's text.
