# Kantika - Hardcover

by **Elizabeth Graver** (Author)

**A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.**

A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, _Kantika_\--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way--a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge--her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old.

Exploring identity, place and exile, _Kantika_ also reveals how the female body--in work, art and love--serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only life.

### Author Biography

**Elizabeth Graver**'s fourth novel, _The End of the Point_, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award and selected as a _New York Times_ Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are _Awake_, _The Honey Thief_, and _Unravelling_. Her story collection, _Have You Seen Me?_, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in _Best American Short Stories_, _Best American Essays_, and _Prize Stories, the O. Henry Awards._ She teaches at Boston College.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.14 x 9.44 x 6.52 IN

**Publication Date:** April 18, 2023

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