The Art of White Roses by Viviana Pradonez
It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba. An insight into what it is like to be young when bad things happen and it is not your fault.
"The Art of White Roses is a gorgeously written story, full of nuance, sadness, and the joy of growing upA terrific debut from an exciting new voice in young people's literature." - Daniel Jose Older, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning YA series, The Shadowshaper Cypher.
Viviana Prado-Núñez 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 fallen in love, though she hopes to do all three of those things in the future. Her writing experience includes attendance of a Fiction Seminar at Brown University and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, as well as previous publication in The Best Teen Writing of 2014, Synergy, and 4×4 Magazine. She is currently a freshman at Columbia University majoring in Creative Writing. The Art of White Roses is her first book. She is a finalist for the 2017 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781999776824 |
| ISBN 10 | 1999776828 |
| Title | The Art of White Roses |
| Author | Viviana Pradonez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Papillote Press |
| Year published | 2018-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Winner of Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature 2017 |
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