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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England in the summer of 1894. Jim is hopeful the cruise will help Diana open up to him. Something is troubling her, and Jim is concerned. On their first evening, Jim meets an intriguing Spaniard, a fellow soldier with whom he finds an instant kinship. But within twenty-four hours, Don Juan Nepomuceno is murdered, his body discovered shortly after he asks rather urgently to see...
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English
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"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...
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"A journey towards a new life. A story of love and betrayal in the twilight of an era. A woman willing to know the truth. 1898. Zoilo and Elisa watch their native Cartagena move away from the deck of the ocean liner that will take them to a new and uncertain life in Mexico. Pushed by the violence of the mining riots in Spain, the wealthy couple are forced to flee before their workers rise up against them and their properties. However, shortly after...
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