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'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian 'Juan Marsé's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary Supplement From one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war...

Dalla scrittrice bestseller, una storia d'amore indimenticabile, che vi farà fremere d'emozione. Liguria, 1897. La giovane Elisa non sa perché, diciotto anni prima, i suoi genitori abbiano deciso di abbandonarla. Cresciuta in un austero convento, appena maggiorenne si trasferisce a Oneglia per lavorare come domestica presso l'altolocata famiglia Gandolfo. Sarà qui che la giovane conoscerà l’affascinante Riccardo, per il quale inizierà a provare – ricambiata – un sentimento impossibile.

As wealthy debutante Violet Beauchamp travels across country on Route 66, she finds a small dog hurt on the road. Unwilling to leave the dog, she stops at a small Hopi Indian souvenir stand, where she is advised to go to the Holbrook Wigwam Motel. She is also given an enchanted rock, and told that the next man she sees will be the man she marries. When she meets motel clerk Lee, although handsome and kind, she still believes she is destined to marry a wealthy man in California whom she has never met.