Searing and sensual, Yocandra has establised Cuban writer Zoe Valdes as a defiant new voice in international fiction. Her unforgettable novel tells the story of a young woman trapped in the tropical paradise of her homeland where only anger or laughter or dreams or sex seem to have meaning. As Castro's regime turns her verdant island into a wasteland, Yocandra plots her own course of survival. At sixteen, she moves in with the Traitor, a phoney philosopher. Later she takes up with the Nihilist, a banned film-maker. We meet her best friend, the Gusana, and the Lynx, who escapes to Miami strapped to a raft. Savage and wickedly funny, Yocandra is a stunning novel of love and rage.
