Ergebnis für "Celia" in Saga

Madrid, 1928. Entre las páginas de una revista nace la primera historia de una niña que cautivará a España. Su nombre es Celia. Lo sabemos todo sobre Celia —lo que dice, sus aventuras, sus fantasías—, pero apenas conocemos a la escritora que la creó: Elena Fortún. La aclamada autora de Un destino propio, María Montesinos, novela los trece años en los que Fortún se convierte en la escritora más leída del país.

Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled, and the women hold property—a world in which anything can happen. It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. In 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara.

A “sweeping and beautifully written” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband...