El Baile de Las Marionetas / The Dance of the Puppets [Spanish]

By Mercedes Guerrero

Una historia de amistad, de supervivencia, de personajes entra?ables, de lealtades inquebrantables, amores imposibles y traiciones imperdonables.

Afganist?n, 2004. La doctora Edith Lombard, de M?dicos Sin Fronteras, hace guardia en un hospital de Kabul. Al atender a una joven en quir?fano advierte en su cuello algo que atrae su atenci?n: un collar del que cuelga una perla de ?mbar. Una perla que Edith reconoce enseguida, pues fue robada en su casa de Quebec dieciocho a?os antes, en un atraco en el que su madre falleci? de un disparo. Una perla de la que su padre, ?douard Lombard, hab?a contado que perteneci? a la famosa C?mara de ?mbar de San Petersburgo, desparecida durante la II Guerra Mundial.

Bilbao,1937. Del puerto de Santurce est? a punto de zarpar el Habana, que llevar? a m?s de cuatro mil ni?os hasta la Uni?n Sovi?tica, huyendo de la guerra civil que ahogaba el pa?s. All?, su historia, la historia de unos exiliados utilizados como marionetas por el gobierno de Stalin, se hilvanar? con la de la perla de ?mbar en un viaje de setenta a?os que desempolvar? recuerdos que nadie quer?a que viesen la luz.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A story about friendship, survival, charming characters, unbreakable loyalties, impossible loves, and unforgivable betrayals.

Afghanistan, 2004. Edith Lombard, from Doctors Without Borders, was on duty at a hospital in Kabul. While attending to a young woman in the operating room, she notices something around her neck that takes her attention: a necklace with an amber pearl hanging. A pearl that Edith recognizes right away, as it was stolen from her house in Quebec eighteen years earlier during a robbery in which her mother was shot dead. A pearl that her father, ?douard Lombard, had said belonged to the famous Amber Room in Saint Petersburg but disappeared during World War II.

Bilbao, 1937. The Habana is about to set sail from the port of Santurce to the Soviet Union with more than four thousand children fleeing the civil war that is drowning the country. There, their story--of the exiles being used as puppets by Stalin's government--will intertwine with that of the amber pearl on a seventy-year journey that will dust off memories that nobody wanted to see the light.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8466350217
• ISBN13: 9788466350211
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Debolsillo
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"