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Un violento asesinato. Un padre que perseguirá la verdad. Un camino que le hará volver a sí mismo. Don Mariano es un juez retirado que lleva una existencia infeliz en Zaragoza, donde dedica los días a cuidar de su jardín, su único refugio. Su monótona vida, sin embargo, se trastoca cuando recibe la noticia de que su hijo, David, de quien se distanció años atrás, ha sido asesinado en Tenerife. Las misteriosas circunstancias que rodean este crimen llevarán a Mariano a emprender un viaje a la isla en busca de respuestas. Lo que vivirá allí lo cambiará todo: siguiendo el rastro de David, descubrirá el turbio mundo que se esconde tras la pacífica faceta del lugar. En su esfuerzo por destapar esta red de crímenes se verá en el punto de mira de peligrosos enemigos, hará amistades inesperadas e, incluso, se reencontrará consigo mismo. A la sombra de un laurel de Indias combina lo mejor del thriller y la novela de autodescubrimiento para regalarnos una historia apasionante y conmovedora. Un relato emotivo sobre cómo reconstruirnos cuando lo hemos dado todo por perdido, con la isla de Tenerife como telón de fondo.

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires. Together with two thousand other refugees, Roser and Victor embark on the SS Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, to Chile: “the long petal of sea and wine and snow.” As unlikely partners, the couple embraces exile as the rest of Europe erupts in world war. Starting over on a new continent, they face trial after trial, but they will also find joy as they patiently await the day when they might go home. Through it all, their hope of returning to Spain keeps them going.