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Arcade
March 2016
On Sale: March 1, 2016
Featuring: Dora Maar; Pablo Picasso
304 pages
ISBN: 1628725818
EAN: 9781628725810
Kindle: B01B11TR1O
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the
best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's
mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés—a Cuban exile living in
Paris with her husband and young daughter—is preparing a
novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising
artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo
Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the
art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and
ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman
captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed
with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her
commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends. The writer's research centers on a mysterious trip to
Venice that Dora took fifteen years later, in the company
of two young gay men who were admirers of Picasso,
including the biographer James Lord. After this episode,
Dora cut off contact with the world and secluded herself in
her Paris apartment until her death. "After Picasso, God,"
she would say. What happened in Venice? The more the writer
investigates, the more she finds herself implicated in a
story of passion taken to the extremes. In The Weeping
Woman, prize-winning novelist Zoé Valdés narrates the
journey of a woman who would do anything and everything for
love.
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