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Destino | 416 Pages | October
2018
English sample
available
True
love hides the biggest secret. Care Santos is back with a
story that goes straight to the heart.
Reina is a strong, independent woman, a respected
professional whose career is based on her uncanny ability to
sniff out who is who and to know when people are lying to
her. During a business trip, she receives the news that her
one son, a teenager she had always thought was happy, has
attempted suicide. Overwhelmed by panic and the need to be
by his side, she tries to make it back home, but a terrible
winter storm leaves her stranded in Bucharest overnight. She
is forced to wait it out, with nothing but her cellphone and
her memories to help her try and understand what might have
pushed her son to take such a choice. Her thoughts put her
on the road to the truth, recollecting the people her son
knew and the places he frequented, only to discover how
little she really knows about him. In this journey inside
herself, she will reconstruct not only Alberto’s life, but
also her own, interwoven with recollections of her ex-partner
and her current husband, and in this way, we will come to
know the fragile web of relationships that underpins her
life.
A novel about family ties, the consequences of the
decisions we take, and how little we know the people we love
most.
RIGHTS SOLD TO:
Humanitas (Romania)
OPTION PUBLISHERS:
Bastei Lübbe (Germany), Salani (Italy), Sonia Draga (Poland),
Smart Books (Bulgaria). |
