Una historia fascinante que narra la apasionada lucha por la libertad de dos mujeres negras en ???pocas distintas: la Cuba esclavista colonial y la Espa???a del siglo XXI. Cuba, mediados del siglo XIX A la isla caribe???a arriba un barco portador de una siniestra carga. M???s de setecientas mujeres y ni???as secuestradas de su ???frica natal llegan para trabajar, hasta la extenuaci???n, en los campos de ca???a de az???car y parir hijos que ser???n tambi???n esclavos. Kaweka es una de ellas, una muchacha que vivir??? en ...
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Una historia fascinante que narra la apasionada lucha por la libertad de dos mujeres negras en ???pocas distintas: la Cuba esclavista colonial y la Espa???a del siglo XXI. Cuba, mediados del siglo XIX A la isla caribe???a arriba un barco portador de una siniestra carga. M???s de setecientas mujeres y ni???as secuestradas de su ???frica natal llegan para trabajar, hasta la extenuaci???n, en los campos de ca???a de az???car y parir hijos que ser???n tambi???n esclavos. Kaweka es una de ellas, una muchacha que vivir??? en primera persona el horror de la esclavitud en la hacienda del cruel marqu???s de Santadoma, pero que pronto demostrar??? a quienes la rodean que posee la facultad de comulgar con Yemay???. Esta es una diosa voluble que, en ocasiones, le concede el don de la curaci???n y le proporciona la fuerza para liderar a sus hermanos de raza en la lucha por la libertad contra unos opresores que han logrado esclavizar sus cuerpos, pero no sus almas. Madrid, ???poca actual Lita, una joven mulata, es hija de Concepci???n, la mujer que lleva toda la vida sirviendo en casa de los marqueses de Santadoma, en pleno barrio de Salamanca, al igual que hicieron sus antepasadas en la Cuba colonial. A pesar de tener estudios y ambici???n profesional, la precariedad laboral obliga a Lita a recurrir a los todopoderosos se???ores de Santadoma en busca de una oportunidad en la banca propiedad del marqu???s. A medida que se sumerge en las finanzas de la empresa y en el pasado de esta riqu???sima familia, la joven descubre los or???genes de su fortuna y decide emprender una batalla legal en favor de la dignidad y la justicia, que merecen tanto su madre como todas las mujeres que entregaron sus vidas al servicio de unos blancos que nunca las trataron como a iguales. Una deslumbrante novela sobre dos mujeres valientes que combatir???n, cada una con sus armas, el racismo y la injusticia, escrita por el autor espa???ol de novela hist???rica m???s importante de nuestro tiempo. Un rendido homenaje al papel de las mujeres en su lucha por la justicia y la libertad . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A fascinating story narrating two black women's passionate struggle for freedom in two different times--colonial-enslaved Cuba and twenty-first-century Spain. Cuba, mid-nineteenth century A ship bearing a sinister cargo reaches the Caribbean island. Over seven-hundred women and girls abducted from their native Africa arrive to work to exhaustion in the sugarcane fields and give birth to future slaves. Kaweka is among them, a young woman who will experience first hand the horror of slavery in the cruel Marquis of Santadoma's hacienda. But she will soon show those around her that she has the ability to communicate to Yemay???, a fickle goddess that at times grants her the gift of healing and gives her the strength to lead her brothers and sisters in their fight for freedom against the oppressors who have enslaved their bodies, but never their souls. Madrid, present time Lita, a young mulatto woman is Concepci???n's daughter, a woman who has spent her entire life working as a servant in the house of the marquises of Santadoma, right in the Salamanca district, just as her ancestors did before her in colonial Cuba. In spite of being an educated woman and having professional ambitions, work scarcity forces Lita to turn to the almighty sires of Santadoma for an opportunity at the bank owned by the marquis. As she goes deeper into the company's finances and the past of this wealthy family, she begins to uncover the origins of their fortune and decides to wage a legal battle in favor of dignity and justice for her mother and all the other women who gave their lives at the s
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