Cuban Immigrant and Award Winning Novelist Announces New Book, Forgotten Objects

Miami, FL, November 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Forgotten Objects. traces the life of Anna d’Amio, daughter of opera singers Louis and Francesca d’Amio, from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the mid sixties. The storyline consists of three different locations: Italy, Cuba and United States. Married at seventeen and widowed at twenty, Anna leaves war-torn Italy to find her fortune in Cuba, where she eventually meets Ramón Contreras, a wealthy tobacco grower who later becomes her second husband. The idyllic world that the couple had so laboriously built suddenly comes crashing down after the communist take over of the island and Ramón’ s sudden and violent death. Now with two daughters under her care, Anna soon realizes that there is no future for them in Cuba, so she opts to send them to the United States through the Pedro Pan Program.

Eventually Anna comes to the US herself, but by then the girls have been placed in foster homes. It is during this stage of her life, penniless and without influence, that she must make the greatest sacrifices to regain custody of her daughters. As the story ends, a series of letters is found, all dated 2005, that were exchanged by the sisters after their mother passed away. Anna left behind a box containing a collection of sundry items that she had collected throughout her life. Cognizant that these were significant for their mother, they attempt to piece together a sketch of her life through these forgotten objects.

In 1989, Carlos Rubio’s novel Quadrivium received the "Nuevo León International Prize for Novels." He has been twice a finalist in the Letras de Oro literary competition. In 2004 his novel Dead Time received Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award.

Forgotten Objects is available in print and e-book versions.

Book Information:
Forgotten Objects
Author: Carlos Rubio
Publisher: Portilla Publishing
ISBN: 978-1480066526
Published: October 2012
Pages: 506

About The Author:
Carlos Rubio Albet was born in Pinar del Río, Cuba. In 1961 he came to the United States and finished high school in Wilmington, Delaware. His first short story was published while attending Concord College in Athens, West Virginia. His work, in English and Spanish, has appeared in the anthologies 20 Cuentistas Cubanos, Cuban American Writers, Distinct Voices, Narrativa y Libertad and Motu Proprio.

For more information, review copies, or interviews please contact the author at:

Carlos Rubio
E-mail: dbtcarlos@yahoo.com
Author's site: http://www.carlosrubioalbet.com

Forgotten Objects is available for purchase online through the author's website, from the publisher, Amazon.com (paperback and Kindle), BN.com and other online retailers. Bookstores should contact Ingram for wholesale orders.