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Cantoras

De Robertis, Carolina, author

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Subject: Female friendship Fiction. / Human rights Fiction. / Lesbians Uruguay Fiction. / Warlordism Uruguay History 20th century Fiction. / Uruguay Social conditions 1973- Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780525521693

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3604.E129 C36 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE