Mesetas de espejos

Tras la derrota de Napoleón en Waterloo, la paz aún está en peligro; el riesgo de una guerra que devastaría Europa es cada vez más real. Por ello es imprescindible que María Bergen, la condesa Janos, siga utilizando sus encantos e informe de sus descubrimientos a Londres. Pero en realidad, ¿es una condesa húngara, una lady inglesa o una princesa italiana? Lo cierto es que ni siquiera sus superiores en el Foreign Office lo saben. Como tampoco saben si ha decidido abandonar su misión por "cansancio" o porque forma parte de la conjura y es una traidora.

Another dazzling novel by the author of the best-selling novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring. Chevalier draws a picture of family life that exposes the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, set against a backdrop of social and political turbulence in early twentieth-century London. "In her New York Times best-selling follow-up, Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" /The New York Times ...

The book follows the adventures of a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takes great delight in hurting the animals on his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family are at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boy reduced to...

Strange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorn the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a more fearful secret lurks within: every bride who enters its forbidding walls is doomed to leave in a casket. Nicoletta knows all too well the curse that plagues the house of Scarletti; she believes her miraculous healing gifts set her apart.