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1) Repentance
Author
Publisher
Agora
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"1981. Argentina is in the grip of a brutal military dictatorship. Inspector Joaquín Alzada's work in the Buenos Aires police force exposes him to the many realities of life under a repressive regime: desperate people, terrified people and--worst of all--missing people. Personally, he prefers to stay out of politics, enjoying a simple life with his wife Paula. But when his revolutionary brother Jorge is disappeared, Alzada will stop at nothing to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"February 1913. Seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution....
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
Max and Mercedes first meet in 1928, when she is the wife of a noted composer and he is a professional dance partner on the ship taking her to Buenos Aires, and their romance does not end although life takes them in different directions.
"Un extraño desafío entre dos músicos, que lleva a uno de ellos a Buenos Aires en 1928; un asunto de espionaje en la Riviera francesa durante la Guerra Civil española; una inquietante partida de ajedrez en el...
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