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Loading... Aires dificiles, Los (Maxi) (Spanish Edition) (original 2002; edition 2007)by Almudena Grandes
Work InformationThe Wind from the East by Almudena Grandes (2002)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was a relatively typical romance-drama-crime story about several families in Spain whose lives intertwine on a small beach town. One of them fled to the town after being suspected of killing his brother, another is wrestling with her identity as a house-keeper, and a third has been a loner her entire life after several negative experiences with people she loved in childhood and young adulthood. Overall, the book was fun and interesting, but it was not gripping, and I found the ending a little lackluster - I felt like it was building up to something big, and it seemed to fall a little flat. ( ) Als Sara Gómez sich für das Haus Nr. 31 in einer südspanischen Ferienanlage entscheidet, will sie fliehen, vor sich und vor ihrem Leben in Madrid. Auch Juan Olmedo, ihr neuer Nachbar, hütet ein dunkles Geheimnis: die große Liebe seines Lebens war Charo, die Frau seines Bruders. Nun ist Charo tot und für Juan hat das Leben keinen Sinn mehr. Sara und Juan eint nichts als eine Vergangenheit, der sie zu entkommen hoffen. Doch vielleicht könnten sie gerade deshalb eine Zukunft haben. no reviews | add a review
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Internationally celebrated author Almudena Grandes has produced her finest work yet with The Wind from the East, a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gómes Morales,given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother,is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to leave her godmother’s home and return to live in poverty with her estranged parents. Tortured by resentment and the loneliness of belonging to neither place,she finds solace as an adult only when she moves to the coastal town. Parallel to Sara’s story is the story of Juan and Damian Olmedo, brothers in love with the same woman. One night an argument incited by jealousy leads Damian to stumble down a flight ofstairs and fall to his death. Suspected ofmurdering his younger brother, Juan flees to the same village that served as Sara’s escape. Deftly engaging, The Wind from the Eastis an epic tale of love and redemption. Almudena Grandes' writing has been compared to the work of classic and contemporary voices such as the Brontë sisters and Isabel Allende. No library descriptions found. |
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