The Art of White Roses
£7.99
ISBN
9781999776824
Published
2018
Format
Paperback
also an eBook
ISBN
9781999776824
Published
2018
format
Paperback
also an eBook
It is 1957, in a quiet Havana suburb. Adela Santiago is thirteen and lives in a small blue house with her family. But something is amiss. Students on her street are disappearing, her parents’ marriage seems to be disintegrating and a cousin is caught up in a bombing at a luxury hotel. Welcome to the revolution. Welcome to Cuba.
Winner
Viviana Prado-Núñez won the Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature (2017) for this first novel set in Cuba.
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A reading from the award-winning Young Adult novel The Art of White Roses
En Papillote is a series of readings by authors from the list of Papillote Press of Dominica and the UK. Each video is introduced by publisher Polly Pattullo. Here, Viviana Prado-Núñez of Puerto Rico reads from her Young Adult novel, The Art of White Roses.
What they say
– Daniel José Older, author of the award-winning YA series “The Shadowshaper Cypher”.
For a young woman’s debut novel, Viviana Prado-Núñez writes with assurance, eloquence and beauty.”
– Jamila Gavin, author of “Coram Boy”, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Children’s Book of the Year
– Bali Rai, YA author of YA novels, including The Crew and Rani & Sukh
– David Tomas Martinez, poet and teacher
A beautifully told story of a young girl growing up in Batista’s Cuba. Adela, the protagonist, tells the story of her neighborhood, family, and friends as she tries to make sense of how disappearances, violence, and affairs affect her and the people she loves
– Elena Foulis, Latinxs in Kid Lit
See full review: here
About the Author
Viviana Prado-Núñez
Viviana Prado-Núñez is a writer and theatre-maker who was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a hospital with a 4.0 Google review rating and a view of the ocean. She has never seen Star Wars, eaten a grasshopper, or written a poem without the letter “e,” though she hopes to do all three of those things in the future. Previous credits include winning the 2017 Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature for The Art of White Roses, winning the 2017 Morgan Parker Poetry Prize, longlisting for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award, and being listed on the New York Public Library’s recommended reading list for 2020 National Caribbean American Heritage Month.
