Kantika, a novel, Elizabeth Graver
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Kantika, a novel, Elizabeth Graver
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Kantika
Oclc number
1309065897
Responsibility statement
Elizabeth Graver
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way--a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge--her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body--in work, art and love--serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only life." --Amazon
Target audience
adult
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- Domestic fiction
- Judaism + Sephardic rite + Customs and practices -- Fiction
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- Cohen family -- Fiction
- Barcelona (Spain) -- Fiction
- Havana (Cuba) -- Fiction
- Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction
- Religious fiction
- Sephardim -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
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- Domestic fiction
- Judaism + Sephardic rite + Customs and practices -- Fiction
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- Cohen family -- Fiction
- Barcelona (Spain) -- Fiction
- Havana (Cuba) -- Fiction
- Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction
- Religious fiction
- Sephardim -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
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