NOVEDADES

Frente a un siniestro caserón de piedra, anclado en medio de la cuenca minera asturiana, se detiene un coche de servicios sociales. Dentro del vehículo, Dani Sorribes no acaba de asimilar que haya acabado en ese lugar ni que, con solo trece años, haya quedado huérfano. Desde la ventanilla, no quita ojo a la figura que se recorta sobre el cielo. Una estructura metálica que se eleva junto a un oscuro bosque de hayas, en una mina abandonada que, nada más verla, le ha provocado un escalofrío. Fuera del coche, Alicia, la mujer que lo acoge, le espera con una sonrisa amable y una mirada gélida. Para ella, la mina pertenece a una vida pasada de la que solo queda un amargo recuerdo. Cerrada años atrás, tuvo su origen en un pueblo detenido en el tiempo, desahuciado, casi deshabitado, y donde las casas se cierran todas las noches a cal y canto.

Mari never gave much thought to the afterlife before her untimely demise, but she certainly didn’t think it would be an experimental wellness enclave called Paradise Gate—a place where the newly dead go to sort out the unfinished business of their lives. She also didn’t think the biggest problem to plague her in life would follow her into the great beyond: her also recently deceased mother, Faye. Mari quickly realizes Faye is her unfinished business, and in order to move on to whatever’s next, she’ll have to find a way to forgive her dysfunctional mother for being no mother at all. But there’s so much to forgive: never holding down a steady job, never having a stable home, and abandoning Mari in the end.

Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy vividly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture.