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For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course...
2) The rocks
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, "The Rocks" opens with a confrontation and a secret: What was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? And how did their history shape the Romeo and Juliet like romance of their (unrelated) children decades later? Centered around a popular...
3) Azul salado
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Una novela sobre los sabores de la familia y la auténtica belleza de Mallorca. Marina regresa a Mallorca, su isla natal, tras una llamada de socorro de su madre. Vuelve dispuesta a tomar las riendas de La Ultramarina, el negocio familiar, mucho más que una casa de comidas. Allí revive los recuerdos que atesora junto a las mujeres más importantesde su vida: la abuela Carmen, su madre y su hermana Irene. En un momento vital clave, volver a la raíz...
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