The Island of Eternal Love

Blurb

The Island of Eternal Love is a novel by Cuban author Daína Chaviano.
The plot is a family saga that takes place along two parallel lines: one during our time and another that begins in the 1850s.
The modern story revolves around the paranormal investigations of Cecilia, a young journalist researching a phantom house that appears and disappears in different parts of Miami. Several witnesses claim to have seen the inhabitants of that house, whose behavior seems to hide a secret that she decides to find out.
Before starting her investigations into the house, Cecilia goes to a bar, where she meets an old woman whom she befriends. Night after night, Cecilia listens to the story of that woman, who returns to that spot each evening to await a mysterious visitor. And this account is the other part of the novel, which begins in the nineteenth century in three regions of the world: Africa, China and Spain.