Sexo, mentiras e historia cient�fica convergen en La Habana en el a�o 1993. "Era como si hubi�ramos alcanzado el punto cr�tico m�nimo de una curva matem�tica. �Tiene presente una par�bola? El cero de abajo, el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ah� llegamos."Corre el a�o 1993. Cuba est� en lo m�s �lgido del Per�odo Especial, un profunda crisis econ�mica tras el colapso del bloque sovi�tico.Para Julia, una profesora de matem�tica que detesta ense�ar, La Habana est� en su a�o cero: el punto m�s ...
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Sexo, mentiras e historia cient�fica convergen en La Habana en el a�o 1993. "Era como si hubi�ramos alcanzado el punto cr�tico m�nimo de una curva matem�tica. �Tiene presente una par�bola? El cero de abajo, el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ah� llegamos."Corre el a�o 1993. Cuba est� en lo m�s �lgido del Per�odo Especial, un profunda crisis econ�mica tras el colapso del bloque sovi�tico.Para Julia, una profesora de matem�tica que detesta ense�ar, La Habana est� en su a�o cero: el punto m�s bajo, camino a ninguna parte. Desesperada por tomar las riendas de su vida, Julia se une a Euclides, su colega y ex amante, para emprender la b�squeda del documento que compruebe que el tel�fono fue inventado por Antonio Meucci, en La Habana. Creen que esta es la respuesta para proteger su reputaci�n y darle a Cuba un nuevo prop�sito.A partir de este punto cero, Julia da inicio a una investigaci�n que la acercar� a dos hombres que prometen guiarla hasta el documento, y que la ver� involucrada en un enredado misterio de pasi�n, legados familiares y las complejidades de c�mo la gente encuentra maneras de sobrevivir en un pa�s que vive la m�s terrible de sus crisis. "It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's how low we sank." The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, Havana is at Year Zero: the lowest possible point, going nowhere. Desperate to seize control of her life, Julia teams up with her colleague and former lover, Euclid, to seek out a document that proves the telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci in Havana, convinced it is the answer to secure their reputations and give Cuba a purpose once more.From this point zero, Julia sets out on an investigation to befriend two men who could help lead to the document's whereabouts, and must pick apart a tangled mystery of sex, family legacies and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb. Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana. It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's how low we sank. The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a purpose once more. What begins as an investigation into scientific history becomes a tangle of sex, friendship, family legacies, and the intricacies of how people find ways to survive in a country at its lowest ebb.
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