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Los Abrazos Prometidos / The Promised Embraces
Paperback
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9788425373640
Publisher: Grijalbo
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
Un secreto que amenaza con salir a la luz.
Una historia de supervivencia, amor y redención en plena posguerra española.
Tras los años convulsos de la Guerra Civil, Clara Castelao vive con su hijo Miguel en un pequeño pueblo de las afueras de Barcelona, ocultando su pasado en el bando republicano. Las vidas y costumbres de los vecinos transcurren entre rencillas no vengadas, secretos dormidos en la memoria y silencios resignados que los vencidos callan y los vencedores celebran.
La llegada de un antiguo compañero de armas de su marido pondrá en peligro su nueva identidad al tiempo que removerá sentimientos que creÃa dormidos: la huida de su pueblo natal, las muertes que no ha podido llorar y unas heridas que se resisten a cerrarse.
Pepa Fraile firma una historia sensible y tierna, un relato del que, entre silencios e ideales perdidos, nace un atisbo de esperanza.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A woman who needs to bury the past.
A secret that threatens to come to light.
A story of survival, love, and redemption in the midst of the Spanish postwar period.
After the turbulent years of the Spanish Civil War, Clara Castelao lives with her son Miguel in a small village on the outskirts of Barcelona, hiding her past on the Republican side. The lives and customs of the neighbors unfold amid unavenged grudges, secrets dormant in memory, and resigned silences that the vanquished keep quiet and the victors celebrate.
The arrival of a former comrade-in-arms of her husband will jeopardize her new identity while stirring up feelings she thought were dormant: her flight from her hometown, the deaths she has been unable to mourn, and wounds that refuse to heal.
Pepa Fraile has written a sensitive and tender story, a tale in which, amid silences and lost ideals, a glimmer of hope is born.
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