Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money - she was a favourite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lectora - and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends, neighbours and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell one last story so that eight women can keep hope, and themselves, alive as a deadly hurricane hits Cuba. The women are trapped together, and so Maria begins to tell the story of her childhood during Cuba's Third War of Independence.
- ISBN10 1609452526
- ISBN13 9781609452520
- Publish Date 23 April 2015 (first published 7 April 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Europa Editions
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English