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Cuando YA No Quede Nadie / When There Is No One Left
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Una ambiciosa novela sobre la memoria histrica, el amor y la fortaleza de las mujeres en la posguerra.
Ofelia acaba de perder a su padre y, tras recibir la noticia, regresa a su ciudad natal. Una vez all, no solo se encuentra con el hogar de su infancia, sino tambin con un pasado familiar que desconoca. En el funeral ha aparecido un misterioso francs que resulta saber mucho ms de su padre de lo que ella nunca supo. Ser entonces cuando Ofelia se pregunte quines fueron realmente sus padres, a los que siempre vio como un humilde trabajador ferroviario y una portera de un edificio seorial. Lo que est a punto de descubrir podra desbaratar por completo su percepcin sobre la vida, su familia y la historia de nuestro pas. Con una escritura que emociona y estremece, Esther Lpez Barcel disipa esa niebla espesa que cubri durante lustros el recuerdo de los momentos ms duros de la Dictadura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION How many decades of silence can a family resist?
An ambitious novel about historical memory, love, and the fortitude of women after the war.
Ofelia just lost her father, and after receiving the news, she returns to her native city. Once there, she not only finds her childhood home, but a family past she did not know. At the funeral, a mysterious Frenchman arrives and happens to know more about her father than she ever did. It is then that Ofelia wonders who her mother and father really were, whom she always had as the gatekeeper of a stately building and a humble railroad worker. What she is about to learn might disrupt her perception of life, family, and the story of Spain entirely. With an emotional and thrilling narrative, Esther Lpez Barcel clears the heavy mist hanging over decades of memories of the most difficult moments in Franco's dictatorship.
Una ambiciosa novela sobre la memoria histrica, el amor y la fortaleza de las mujeres en la posguerra.
Ofelia acaba de perder a su padre y, tras recibir la noticia, regresa a su ciudad natal. Una vez all, no solo se encuentra con el hogar de su infancia, sino tambin con un pasado familiar que desconoca. En el funeral ha aparecido un misterioso francs que resulta saber mucho ms de su padre de lo que ella nunca supo. Ser entonces cuando Ofelia se pregunte quines fueron realmente sus padres, a los que siempre vio como un humilde trabajador ferroviario y una portera de un edificio seorial. Lo que est a punto de descubrir podra desbaratar por completo su percepcin sobre la vida, su familia y la historia de nuestro pas. Con una escritura que emociona y estremece, Esther Lpez Barcel disipa esa niebla espesa que cubri durante lustros el recuerdo de los momentos ms duros de la Dictadura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION How many decades of silence can a family resist?
An ambitious novel about historical memory, love, and the fortitude of women after the war.
Ofelia just lost her father, and after receiving the news, she returns to her native city. Once there, she not only finds her childhood home, but a family past she did not know. At the funeral, a mysterious Frenchman arrives and happens to know more about her father than she ever did. It is then that Ofelia wonders who her mother and father really were, whom she always had as the gatekeeper of a stately building and a humble railroad worker. What she is about to learn might disrupt her perception of life, family, and the story of Spain entirely. With an emotional and thrilling narrative, Esther Lpez Barcel clears the heavy mist hanging over decades of memories of the most difficult moments in Franco's dictatorship.
Paperback
$19.95