Winner of the prestigious Azorn Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. The Weeping Woman , prize-winning novelist Zoe Valdes narrates the journey of a woman who would do anything and everything for love.
Originally published as La mujer que llora (Barcelona: Planeta, 2013).
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The Weeping Woman interweaves present and past with intelligence and humor . . . Many of the leading Parisian avant-gardists—Guillaume Apollinaire, Leonor Fini, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Wifredo Lam, André Lhote, Kiki de Montparnasse, Man Ray—are conjured with fidelity and charm." —
The New York Times Book Review "If you're looking for a book that portrays flaws, anger, human suffering, exile, trauma, sex, and survival—pick up Valdes's book. She brings Dora into the light, and reveals the debilitating power so often afforded to men to crush and break women, and how women prevail."—
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas "We are steeped in the history, drama, and even mundaneness of the Surrealist era, with a colorful cast of characters that includes Man Ray, Paul Éluard, and the master himself, Picasso. . . . Valdés reveals Maar to be more than just Picasso's model for his portrait
The Weeping Woman but an inspiring artist in her own right." —
Booklist "Zoé Valdés rescues Dora Maar from Picasso's clutches." —
ABC "
The Weeping Woman is a book about 'someone who separates herself from her work to dedicate herself to genius.'" —
El País "Zoé Valdés is a very important Cuban writer who lives in exile in France. She is very well known in the Spanish-speaking community for the quality of her work and for her courageous fight against Cuban dictatorship in particular and, in general, her criticism of all authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and for her permanent defense of human rights and journalists and writers who are persecuted all over the world."—Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize
