Description

A journalist is tasked with investigating the life of his great-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa. All that is known about her is that she -fled Madrid shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, abandoning her husband and son.

To rescue her from oblivion, he will have to put together all the pieces of the extraordinary puzzle of her life, one by one, which will take him to Paris, London, Cairo, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Athens... A riveting novel featuring characters whose lives paint a magni- cent portrait of the history of the twentieth century.

A captivating story filled with tension and drama that represents an exciting new direction in the literary career of one of Spain's most international authors.