La Viuda y la Estrella de Rock

A veces pienso que mi vida ha sido un continuo otoño, triste y con muy pocos días de sol, tan solo aquellos en los que permaneciste a mi lado. Un otoño que presagiaba el duro invierno en el que ahora nos encontramos sumidos nuestra hija y yo. Desde que te fuiste, nunca dejó de caer la hoja.

Until recently, Zvi was a happily married seventy-year-old engineer with no worrisome ailments beyond those of age. His road projects connected one place to another and opened tunnels of light deep in the mountains. But lately he forgets some names. A visit to the neurologist confirms it: first signs of his decline. Zvi, encouraged by his wife and the specialist, will not give up. His latest work will reveal to you one of the advantages of aging: with memory loss, it increases our ability to understand complex ideas, what is hidden under the surface of all things. From the wonderful pen of...

Somos memoria y pasado, pero ¿qué somos cuando desfallece la memoria? El viejo Alonso Peralta, el famoso periodista de nota roja, no tiene dudas: la mujer que reconoció en el consultorio del doctor J. Galindo, su neurólogo, es Marcia Galván, aquella asesina serial que escapó de la justicia a finales de los años setenta. Lo sabe con certeza porque él mismo hizo un retrato hablado de ella para la policía y recreó sus crímenes en "El día de los hechos", su columna del periódico. Conoce el caso de memoria, no pueden engañarlo. Por eso hará lo imposible por desenmascarar a Marcia y...

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.