La hija del anticuario

Lucía Garrido is a successful surgeon with a tragic past and a suffocating present she can barely sustain. She is trapped in a loveless marriage, a dead-end job, and the demands of parenthood which--by a seemingly-unquestionable social division of labor--seem to have befallen only her. But the sudden death of her absent father shakes her out of her inertia. She decides to show up at the funeral under the pretext of accompanying her uncle, the man who raised her after her mother's suicide and her twin sister's estrangement. Little does she know that returning to her hometown will provide a...

Una excepcional novela sobre el amor y el destino, la memoria y los secretos de familia, ambientada en el Madrid de los años treinta. En los albores de la Segunda República, Lucía Oriol es una joven esposa aristócrata en una sociedad en plena transformación, cuya vida da un vuelco al conocer a Francisco Anglada, viudo empresario de origen judío, que compra una residencia a la familia Oriol en la calle Pintor Rosales. Lo que comienza como una tórrida aventura amorosa, se enreda cuando aparece Jimena, la conflictiva hija de Francisco. La relación entre Jimena y Lucía, la doble vida de...

Two inseparable cousins around 12 years of age, Ceporro and Chino, live in the large flat that belongs to their grandmother after the Civil War. Don Rodolfo, who used to go sparring with Uzkudun, gives them boxing classes. Echoes of the Second World War, Field Marshal Rommel and the Nippon Empire provide the backdrop to the story, and then a young German girl, an orphan and a refugee, appears out of nowhere. As well as being a beautiful story about saying goodbye to childhood, its greatest achievement is the voice of its narrator, Ceporro the tireless charlatan.

En este episodio Alexander Kent nos desvela algunas de las incógnitas sobre la famila Bolitho, al tiempo que nuestro protagonista se enfrenta a una escuadra francesa en aguas del Caribe y del Atlántico Norte.