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ID: 648478

Title: Kantika

Author: Elizabeth Graver

Narrator: Gail Shalan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:21:26

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-23

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Religious Fiction, Family Life, Sagas

Summary:

A kaleidoscopic portrait of one familys 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 ones one and only life.

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