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Nora & Alicia

Cecilia Samartin

Hardcover | Pages: 390 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 1849 Users | 154 Reviews

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Title	:	Nora & Alicia
Author	:	Cecilia Samartin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 390 pages
Published	:	January 18th 2011 by Bazar (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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Nora & Alicia on kertomus kahden tytön välisestä elämää suuremmasta ystävyydestä. Se on myös kuvaus Kuuban vallankumouksen aikaisista ihmiskohtaloista. Tarina pohjautuu osittain kirjailijan oman suvun historiaan.

Havanna, 1956. Varakkaan suvun teini-ikäiset serkukset Nora ja Alicia ovat parhaita ystäviä. He nauttivat täysin siemauksin helposta ja huolettomasta elämästä, kunnes paratiisin ylle lankeaa synkkä varjo: kommunistit aloittavat vallankumouksen ja maa ajautuu sisällissotaan.
Sotilasdiktaattori Batistan hallinto kukistetaan ja Fidel Castro nousee valtaan. Yhä useammat perheet lähtevät maasta, ja lopulta myös Noran perhe muuttaa Yhdysvaltoihin. Alicia perheineen jää Kuubaan, mutta tytöt pitävät yhteyttä niin tiiviisti kuin Castron hallinnon sensuuri sallii.
Elämä kuljettaa tyttöjä eri suuntiin, mutta ystävyys ei katkea.

Alician ja Noran tarinat ovat sangen erilaiset: Noran elämä Yhdysvalloissa on mutkatonta ja mukavaa, mutta Kuubassa kärsitään puutetta ja nälkää.

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Original Title:	Broken Paradise
ISBN:	9525637093 (ISBN13: 9789525637090)
Edition Language:	Finnish

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Ratings: 4.08 From 1849 Users | 154 Reviews

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Nora and Alicia are cousins, living in Cuba in 1956. They are among the privileged class, enjoying holidays with their grandparents, lavish family dinners, days at the beach, dance classes and a good education with the nuns. However it is a dangerous time to be in Cuba as Fidel Castro is rising to power and life as they know it is changing dramatically. Religion becomes forbidden, food begins to become scarce and the wealth that they have previously enjoyed is being redistributed. There are

Well told novel of two cousins living in Cuba just as Castro takes over, it is told mainly through Nora who eventually leaves Alicia behind as her family escapes the country and flees to America. It tells how they cope with their new life and ultimately if they will ever be able to return and what finally makes one of them do just that. Loved it, thanks Diane!

This book is too beautiful. I cannot resist to finish the book in one night once it tells about Castro revolution. This book taught me about hope and belief.

Wonderful book, one I was sad to finish. Another period in history I knew nothing about. Told in a sympathetic way, from two different aspects, those who left Cuba and those who were left behind during the revolution.

A very gripping and special read. It gives you a insight in the revolution of Cuba in the 1960s and the suffering it brought to the people. Samartin tells a very touching story of the separation of two cousins. It is beautifully written and I found it heartbreaking and very powerful at the same time. A must read!

Slow-paced at first, but very quick near the end. The resolution in the last chapter and the epilogue is a bit too hasty--the idea that Nora might have depression makes sense after what she dealt with in Cuba and on the boat, and treatment...may have helped her? It just feels too easy to get a lost letter and then have everything be basically okay. Anyway, my other main issue with this was the constant terrible editing. There was either too much or too little punctuation in nearly every

I an so glad a friend gave me this book to read. I have a soft spot for historical fiction and new very little about Cuba, aside from maybe a movie on Castro which most definetly glorified him. This book is stark and beautiful and heart wrenching. The struggles for the people of Cuba is well captured in this tale of love and struggle and the ghost hearts of refugees. Based on the current climate in America I would think anyone who refuses to accept asylum seekers should be looking at this! So