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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped 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 irreversibly 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...
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
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En plena Guerra Civil espa�nola, el joven m�edico V�ictor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un nav�io fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llev�o a m�as de dos mil espa�noles rumbo a Valpara�iso, embarcar�an en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su pa�is. Recibidos como h�eroes en Chile...
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"A los veintid�os a�nos, sospechando que ten�ian el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras m�as intentaban agotarlo, m�as imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hap pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun as�i quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da ox�igeno."--P. [4]...
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