Lo que esconden las olas

Synopsis

Una apasionante novela que recrea la olvidada historia de El Sirio, conocido como «El Titanic del Mediterráneo», el mayor naufragio civil ocurrido nunca en costas españolas Año 1906. Un trasatlántico italiano navega rumbo a Buenos Aires. Se trata de El Sirio, un elegante y modernísimo barco, en cuyo interior, clérigos, diplomáticos, emigrantes y una bella cupletista española viajan en dirección a ese Nuevo Mundo donde los sueños se pueden hacer realidad. Sin embargo, a solo tres millas de la costa española, el buque naufragará. De manera inexplicable, el capitán se dará a la fuga dejando a bordo un oscuro negocio de inmigración ilegal y una intrincada trama internacional, además de una misteriosa caja fuerte vacía y cientos de pasajeros condenados a la muerte. English Description The year is 1906. An Italian transatlantic ship is sailing toward Buenos Aires. It is the SS Sirio, an elegant and modern ship carrying clergy, diplomats, emigrants, and a beautiful Spanish cabaret singer toward the New World, where dreamscan become reality. However, just three miles away from the Spanish coast, the ship sinks. Inexplicably, the captain flees, leaving aboard a shady business of illegal immigration and a complicated international conspiracy, as well as a mysteriously empty safe and hundreds of passengers destined to drown. 2006. On the one-hundredth anniversary of the shipwreck, young Sandro arrives in the town his family never speaks of. He comes searching for the cause of an accident that might not have been so accidental. Paula involves him in the filming of a documentary commemorating the tragedy, never imagining that the story that they are about to stir up has much to do with his own. An unfortunate promise of honor and a senile old lady, who a century ago traveled to the New World, add surprising clues about this ship that has gone to its eternal rest sixty meters underwater. After her acclaimed debut with Search for Me Where the Dragon Trees Grow--a novel whose echoes of Isabel Allende and María Dueñas led her into the hands of a phenomenal number of readers--Emma Lira is confirmed as a special voice in modern-day literature, with extraordinary storytelling ability and an exquisite and subtle sensitivity for conveying the soul of the protagonists. With this story, based on real events but created from fiction, she invites us to immerse ourselves in an exciting, epic shipwreck known as "The Titanic of the Mediterranean. "

Copyright:

2015

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9788401015946

Related ISBNs:

9788401015748

Publisher:

Plaza & Janés

Date of Addition:

09/23/17

Copyrighted By:

Emma Lira

Adult content:

No

Language:

Spanish

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No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction

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Bookshare Staff

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