Una apasionante historia de espas y, al mismo tiempo, un profundo examen del matrimonio basado en secretos y mentiras. En el colegio, Berta Isla decidi que se casara con Toms Nevinson, el apuesto chico de su clase, medio espaol medio ingls, con un extraordinario don de lenguas. Pero cuando Toms regresa a Madrid tras sus estudios en Oxford, es un hombre diferente. All ha sido reclutado por un agente de los servicios secretos britnicos, desencadenando as una serie de acontecimientos que afectarn la vida que ambos haban planeado. Con su inigualable modo de explorar los ms oscuros rincones del ser humano, Maras sumerge al lector en el creciente abismo que se abre lentamente entre Berta y Toms y las decisiones que cambiarn irremediablemente a ambos. Berta Isla es una novela sobre el amor y la verdad, sobre el miedo y los secretos, sobre las identidades ocultas y el destino que decidimos asumir en nuestra vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping novel of intrigue and missed chances--at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies. When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Toms Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Toms returns to Madrid from his studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned. With peerless insight into the most shadowed corners of the human soul, Maras plunges the reader into the growing chasm between Berta and Toms and the decisions that irreversibly change the course of the couple's fate. Berta Isla is a novel of love and truth, fear and secrecy, buried identities, and the destinies we bring upon ourselves.
Una apasionante historia de espas y, al mismo tiempo, un profundo examen del matrimonio basado en secretos y mentiras. En el colegio, Berta Isla decidi que se casara con Toms Nevinson, el apuesto chico de su clase, medio espaol medio ingls, con un extraordinario don de lenguas. Pero cuando Toms regresa a Madrid tras sus estudios en Oxford, es un hombre diferente. All ha sido reclutado por un agente de los servicios secretos britnicos, desencadenando as una serie de acontecimientos que afectarn la vida que ambos haban planeado. Con su inigualable modo de explorar los ms oscuros rincones del ser humano, Maras sumerge al lector en el creciente abismo que se abre lentamente entre Berta y Toms y las decisiones que cambiarn irremediablemente a ambos. Berta Isla es una novela sobre el amor y la verdad, sobre el miedo y los secretos, sobre las identidades ocultas y el destino que decidimos asumir en nuestra vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping novel of intrigue and missed chances--at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies. When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Toms Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Toms returns to Madrid from his studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned. With peerless insight into the most shadowed corners of the human soul, Maras plunges the reader into the growing chasm between Berta and Toms and the decisions that irreversibly change the course of the couple's fate. Berta Isla is a novel of love and truth, fear and secrecy, buried identities, and the destinies we bring upon ourselves.
