La intensa vida

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana in the 1960s as a restless and angry girl, between the privations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, over time, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the desire for freedom, as in so many other cases, ended up prevailing, and in 1995, invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she requested political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and faultless literary career. In "La intensa vida" she Zoé looks back and remembers the land where she was born and its people, as well as the beginnings of her passion for writing. The funniest and most endearing stories go hand in hand with the bitter moments, in which the shadow of the Castro regime -badly despite many- reveals its true face. But there is also room for Parisian episodes of immersion in a new, strange but fascinating culture, or invocations such as that of Samuel Beckett, thus configuring a kind of memoir without exhaustive effort and with the genuine imprint of a race writer who turns everything she touches into literature.