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Kantika : a Novel by Elizabeth Graver is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kantika : a Novel about?

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.

Who reads Kantika : a Novel?

Author

Elizabeth Graver

Publisher

Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250869852

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Family Sagas

Rating

4.4 / 5 (318 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14