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Tereska Torrès (Tereska Szwarc, París, 1920) es una resistente y mujer de letras franco-norteamericana de origen judío-polaco. En junio de 1940, al producirse la invasión alemana en Francia, viaja a Inglaterra, donde se une a las fuerzas del general De Gaulle en Londres. En 1950, Tereska publica en Estados Unidos una novela autobiográfica sobre su experiencia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Mujeres de uniforme, que cuenta la vida y los amores de cinco muchachas alistadas a las fuerzas de liberación en Londres. Se convierte rápidamente en un bestseller, se venden 4 millones de ejemplares, ...

«Adoro esta novela, no pude parar de leer. Me hizo pensar acerca de los propósitos de la vida. Al final, lloré y reí.» The New York Times «Una mezcla perfecta entre Marley y yo y Martes con mi viejo profesor.» Kirkus Reviews

A porn actor and actress escape their past lives in a black Chrysler Imperial along with the woman’s young daughter, driving beneath an inclement sun on a series of identical roads and past inhospitable landscapes. Each one of them narrates their flight to nowhere, but it is a fourth voice—that of a documentary filmmaker fascinated by this story—that communicates just how much of those three characters can exist within each person. In this magnetic novel the past is a nebulous territory from which there is no escape, and although the journey can turn the most impersonal...

Between cups of espresso and glasses of grappa, love begins in Assisi and continues through letters to and from Madrid. The woman, Spanish, is a novelist and the mother of a young boy. The man, Italian, is an ecologist. The woman's novel-within-the-novel tells us a love story that leads us to climb into the mind of both partners. An extremely satisfying reading experience.