La cruz ardiente
(Book)

Spanish translation of 'The Fiery Cross' by Diana Gabaldon.

"En este quinto volumen, Diana Gabaldon narra la que probablemente sea la historia más emocionante de la extraordinaria saga de Claire Randall. Dividida entre salvar a su marido de los peligros que se avecinan, o por el contrario provocar el estallido de la violencia entre la Corona inglesa y las trece colonias norteamericanas, Claire vive otra vez el dilema de quien, aun conociendo los acontecimientos del futuro, tiene que adaptarse a su vida de presente. Nacida en 1918 en Inglaterra, Claire Randall sirvió como enfermera en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Terminado el conflicto, un viaje en le tiempo la traslada a las Tierras Altas escocesas de 1743, donde se convierte en esposa de Jamie Fraser, y más tarde en madre y cirujana, aunque continúa sintiéndose extranjera, fuera de su lugar y de su tiempo." -- Page [4] of cover.

"'The Fiery Cross' is the fifth book in the Outlander series, following 'Drums of Autumn.' Set against the War of the Regulation in North Carolina (the first tax-payer's rebellion in the American colonies, and a precursor to the full-blown Revolution), the story deals with Jamie Fraser's efforts to protect his family, build a community on Fraser's Ridge, and keep his land -- this last requiring him to walk a delicate tight-rope between the pressing urgency of the rebellion and the increasingly unsteady but still dangerously powerful government. In these efforts, he's mostly aided -- and occasionally hindered -- by his wife Claire, who has become the conjure-woman for the Ridge, his daughter Brianna, whose 20th-century inventiveness may possibly kill them all, and his new son-in-law, Roger MacKenzie, which [sic] whom he has a rather wary relationship, owing to his having at one point sold Roger to the Iroquois (under the misapprehension that Roger had raped his daughter, but still...), and to Roger's sense of inferiority, comparing his own budding skills at swordcraft, farming, and leadership with the man he refers to privately as 'The Great Scot.' It's a story about loyalty -- in which people find what's most important to them, and just how far they'll go to protect it." -- From author's website.

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