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La casa de huéspedes / The Guest House
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The great voice of Spanish women's fiction returns with The Guest House. A splendid saga of women as real as life itself. By the author of The Singer Heiresses and The Girl in the Blue Hat. More than 250,000 copies sold Madrid, 1937. The very moment a bomb falls on a building in the city center, near the Gran Vía, the lives of two young neighbors change forever. Elvira, whose parents run the guest house on the third floor, is in exile in France from the Civil War at the time of the explosion. However, the disappearance of the home she so longs to return to will mark a turning point in her destiny. Ángela, the daughter of the building's caretakers, is present when the place where they both grew up is blown to bits. It is then that she makes a decision with unforeseen consequences: she takes in her arms the baby of some guests who have just died under the rubble and flees, assuming a false identity. Nothing leads Elvira and Ángela to believe that their paths will cross again, nor that another guesthouse will be the meeting place for a new generation of women who, like them, must learn to transform pain into strength and survive with the fragile hope of a better future. The Guest House is a moving story of mothers and daughters who will experience the setbacks of love, friendship, betrayal, and those secrets that last a lifetime. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of our country's leading voices in female-driven narratives is back with The Guest House, the splendid saga of a group of women as real as life itself. By the author of The Singer Heirs and The Blue Hat Girls. More than 250,000 copies sold Madrid, 1937. At the precise instant a bomb falls on a building in the heart of the city, near the Gran Vía, the lives of two neighborhood girls change forever. Elvira, whose parents run the guest house on the third floor, is living in exile in France to escape the Civil War. The loss of the home she's been yearning for will mark a before and after in her life. Ángela, the daughter of the concierge, is there when the building is blown into smithereens. In that moment, she makes an impulsive decision: after rescuing the baby of a couple that was staying at the guest house and died in the bombing, she flees with the child under an assumed name. Elvira and Ángela have no reason to think that their paths will cross again, or that another guest house will be the meeting place of a new generation of women who, like them, must turn grief into strength while trusting in the fragile promise of a better future. The Guest House is a moving story of mothers and daughters navigating the vicissitudes of love, friendship, betrayal, and secrets that last a lifetime
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