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El Baile de Las Marionetas / The Dance of the Puppets
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Afganistn, 2004. La doctora Edith Lombard, de Mdicos Sin Fronteras, hace guardia en un hospital de Kabul. Al atender a una joven en quirfano advierte en su cuello algo que atrae su atencin: un collar del que cuelga una perla de mbar. Una perla que Edith reconoce enseguida, pues fue robada en su casa de Quebec dieciocho aos antes, en un atraco en el que su madre falleci de un disparo. Una perla de la que su padre, douard Lombard, haba contado que perteneci a la famosa Cmara de mbar de San Petersburgo, desparecida durante la II Guerra Mundial. Bilbao,1937. Del puerto de Santurce est a punto de zarpar el Habana, que llevar a ms de cuatro mil nios hasta la Unin Sovitica, huyendo de la guerra civil que ahogaba el pas. All, su historia, la historia de unos exiliados utilizados como marionetas por el gobierno de Stalin, se hilvanar con la de la perla de mbar en un viaje de setenta aos que desempolvar recuerdos que nadie quera que viesen la luz. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A story about friendship, survival, charming characters, unbreakable loyalties, impossible loves, and unforgivable betrayals. Afghanistan, 2004. Edith Lombard, from Doctors Without Borders, was on duty at a hospital in Kabul. While attending to a young woman in the operating room, she notices something around her neck that takes her attention: a necklace with an amber pearl hanging. A pearl that Edith recognizes right away, as it was stolen from her house in Quebec eighteen years earlier during a robbery in which her mother was shot dead. A pearl that her father, douard Lombard, had said belonged to the famous Amber Room in Saint Petersburg but disappeared during World War II. Bilbao, 1937. The Habana is about to set sail from the port of Santurce to the Soviet Union with more than four thousand children fleeing the civil war that is drowning the country. There, their story--of the exiles being used as puppets by Stalin's government--will intertwine with that of the amber pearl on a seventy-year journey that will dust off memories that nobody wanted to see the light.
Afganistn, 2004. La doctora Edith Lombard, de Mdicos Sin Fronteras, hace guardia en un hospital de Kabul. Al atender a una joven en quirfano advierte en su cuello algo que atrae su atencin: un collar del que cuelga una perla de mbar. Una perla que Edith reconoce enseguida, pues fue robada en su casa de Quebec dieciocho aos antes, en un atraco en el que su madre falleci de un disparo. Una perla de la que su padre, douard Lombard, haba contado que perteneci a la famosa Cmara de mbar de San Petersburgo, desparecida durante la II Guerra Mundial. Bilbao,1937. Del puerto de Santurce est a punto de zarpar el Habana, que llevar a ms de cuatro mil nios hasta la Unin Sovitica, huyendo de la guerra civil que ahogaba el pas. All, su historia, la historia de unos exiliados utilizados como marionetas por el gobierno de Stalin, se hilvanar con la de la perla de mbar en un viaje de setenta aos que desempolvar recuerdos que nadie quera que viesen la luz. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A story about friendship, survival, charming characters, unbreakable loyalties, impossible loves, and unforgivable betrayals. Afghanistan, 2004. Edith Lombard, from Doctors Without Borders, was on duty at a hospital in Kabul. While attending to a young woman in the operating room, she notices something around her neck that takes her attention: a necklace with an amber pearl hanging. A pearl that Edith recognizes right away, as it was stolen from her house in Quebec eighteen years earlier during a robbery in which her mother was shot dead. A pearl that her father, douard Lombard, had said belonged to the famous Amber Room in Saint Petersburg but disappeared during World War II. Bilbao, 1937. The Habana is about to set sail from the port of Santurce to the Soviet Union with more than four thousand children fleeing the civil war that is drowning the country. There, their story--of the exiles being used as puppets by Stalin's government--will intertwine with that of the amber pearl on a seventy-year journey that will dust off memories that nobody wanted to see the light.
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