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The Wind from the East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781583227466)
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xInternationally 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.
Author: Almudena Grandes
ISBN-10: 1583227466
ISBN-13: 9781583227466
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.60w x 1.64d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/23/2006 pg. 30
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2006 pg. 1146
New York Times 04/15/2007 pg. 14
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.
Author: Almudena Grandes
ISBN-10: 1583227466
ISBN-13: 9781583227466
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.60w x 1.64d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/23/2006 pg. 30
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2006 pg. 1146
New York Times 04/15/2007 pg. 14
By Almudena Grandes
xALMUDENA GRANDES's Las Edades de Lulu (The Ages of Lulu) won the Sonrisa Vertical Prize for erotic fiction and was made into a film starring Javier Bardem. Grandes's novel Los Aires Difíciles debuted in the number one spot on Spanish bestseller lists when it was published in 2002, and remained on the lists for five months. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages.
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