Cantoras: A novel($20.88Value)

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" Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution—and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again—either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story." —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author 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 one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In this environment, where the everyday rights of people are under attack, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression to be punished. And yet Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus," Paz, and Malena—five cantoras, women who "sing"—somehow, miraculously, find one another. Together, they discover an isolated, nearly uninhabited cape, Cabo Polonio, which they claim as their secret sanctuary. Over the next thirty-five 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. And throughout, again and again, the women will be tested—by their families, lovers, society, and one another—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. At once timeless and groundbreaking, Cantoras is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn. Named a Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction One of NPR's "Favorite Books of 2019" One of the“5 Books Not to Miss” — USA Today One of the “40 Biggest Books of the Season” — Entertainment Weekly One of the "Nine New Books By Latinx Writers You’ve Got To Read" — Buzzfeed One of the “Most Anticipated Books for 2019” — LitHub One of the “33 Books You’ve Got To Read This Autumn” — Buzzfeed One of the "36 New Books Of Fall 2019 You Need To Have On Your Autumn Reading List" — Bustle One of the “Favorite Books for Fall 2019” — Alma One of the “30 New Books of Queer and Feminist Interest to Get Excited About This Fall” — Autostraddle Selected as a 'Well Read' Recommendation — Cinnamon Magazine “Brazenly hopeful . . . The great success of this novel is that it shows how tyranny, even if you can hide from it by living a quiet life, is a thief of joy and love. De Robertis’s precise, chilling insight into the daily agonies of life under a dictatorship rivals Ariel Dorfman’s . . . Cantoras is bold and unapologetic, a challenge to the notion of ‘normalcy’ and a tribute to the power of love, friendship and political resistance. It’s a revolutionary fable, ideal for this moment, offered with wisdom and care.” —Dina Nayeri, The New York Times Book Review “Sweeping and utterly breathtaking . . . Aside from the consistently engrossing narrative that effortlessly interweaves the story of each woman’s personal successes and setbacks with Uruguay’s complicated struggle to come into its own as a democratic republic, De Robertis’ writing is reason alone to read this book. Like her fierce characters, her words pry and pull at the essence of not only what it feels like to be thwarted, condemned or quarantined because of your beliefs and identity, but also what it means to be a vulnerable yet empowered, infinitely beautiful and fully alive woman. Often, these sentences hit their target so directly and eloquently that they practically sing.” —Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle “It’s impossible not to fall in love with these fierce ‘girlwomen’—queer, courageous, and adventurous—as they find freedom in their relationships with each other while living under a ruthless dictatorship.” —Angie Cruz, Vanity Fair “Carolina’s writing, as always, blew me away. Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution—and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again—either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story.”— Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner and author of Red at the Bone “ Cantoras is a wise, brilliantly compassionate, wide-ranging novel about women in Uruguay, and about the power and realities of love. Carolina De Robertis is a force: prepare to be astonished.” —R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries “Breathtaking . . . Cantoras is a gem of a novel, shining in every creative facet . . . If this book were an opera, De Robertis would be deafened by curtain call after curtain call. It is, to say the least, a most memorable page turner that carries a siren call of hope” —Janet Levine, New York Journal of Books “A lyrical, richly sensory novel about a group of renegade cantoras—slang for queer women—who claim a b