Name: El Ingrediente Secreto / The Secret Ingredient (in Spanish)
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Author: Montfort, Vanessa
ISBN: 9788466367356

portada El Ingrediente Secreto / The Secret Ingredient (in Spanish)

El Ingrediente Secreto / The Secret Ingredient (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vanessa Montfort

Publisher

Debolsillo

Collection

Best Seller

Year

2023

Language

Spanish

Pages

504

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.00 x 12.50

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9788466367356

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El Ingrediente Secreto / The Secret Ingredient (in Spanish)"

Por la autora de Mujeres que compran flores « Una historia es como fue o como se la recuerda? El tiempo se construye a partir de combinaciones de vidas puestas a fuego lento. En un mismo crisol de años mezclar los sabores, las tinturas, la luna y el sol, los metales, las estaciones, los vivos y los muertos. El tiempo pone la mezcla a cocer y los elementos se transforman en un solo compuesto: el pasado . Vanessa Montfort, con una voz única, nos deleita con una historia que entrelaza con gran sensibilidad el presente y el pasado de una familia marcada por la guerra civil española. Este hilo llevará a Eva Alcocer a descifrar las claves de la historia de su familia, así como la memoria de todo un país. Conseguirá con esto descubrir cuál es ese misterioso ingrediente que le falta para sentir que su vida tiene sentido? El lirismo y la frescura en el estilo de la autora, así como su capacidad para convertir la realidad en algo extraordinario, atraparán a cualquiera que se deje absorber por esta fascinante novela sobre la búsqueda de la felicidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION By the author of Women Who Buy Flowers. "Is a story as it happened, or as it is remembered? Time is constructed out of a combination of lives simmering over low heat. In a same crucible of years, mix tastes, tinctures, the moon and the sun, metals, seasons, the living and the dead. Time cooks the mixture and the elements transform into one single compound--the past." With a unique voice, Vanessa Montfort delights us with a story that intertwines, with great sensitivity, the past and present of a family marked by the Spanish Civil War. This thread will take Eva Alcocer to decipher the clues of her family history, as well as the memory of an entire nation. Will she finally discover that mysterious ingredient she has been missing to feel like her life has meaning? The lyricism and freshness in the author's style, along with her ability to transform reality into something extraordinary, will capture anyone willing to be absorbed by this fascinating novel about the search for happiness.

Vanessa Montfort

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Vanessa Montfort (Barcelona, 1975) grew up in Madrid. With a degree in Journalism, she is a novelist and playwright. Considered one of the most prominent voices in recent Spanish-language literature, her work is present in twenty-five countries, including France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Korea, the United States, and all of Latin America.

She is the author of The Secret Ingredient (XI Young Ateneo Award of Seville, 2006), New York Mythology (XLII Ateneo Award of Seville, 2010) and The Legend of the Voiceless Island (City of Zaragoza Award. Best historical novel of the year, 2014). Then came Women Who Buy Flowers (2016), which confirmed her international success with critics and audiences, The Dream of the Chrysalis (2019) and The Woman Without a Name (2020), based on her own play, Signed Lejárraga, which brought back from oblivion the figure of the writer María Lejárraga.

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