The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town. At nine years old, Frankie is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie's talent is touched by the gods, and his amazing journey weaves him through the musical landscape of the 20th century, from classical to jazz to rock...

With her mercurial husband dead and the Spanish Civil War raging, Natalia struggles to protect her two small children and clings to memories of her brief marriage and its equal portions of joy and misery.

Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean émigré living in London in 1967, discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. As she tries to sort through the conflicting stories of its discovery, she does not know who to believe, including her art gallery colleague, Marjorie Quick. The mystery surrounding the painting includes Olive Schloss,...

This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II. It picks up right where the first book left off, and continues up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...

Novelist and El País journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish authors. Originally written in Galician, his native language, The Carpenter's Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been published in nine countries. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, The Carpenter's Pencil charts the linked destinies of Dr. Daniel Da Barca, a Republican who cheats death in General Franco's prisons; Herbal,...

En la iglesia de una aldea apartada del occidente montanoso de Asturias se descubren los restos de dos hombres que desaparecieron sesenta anos atras. El hijo de uno de ellos contrata a un investigador privado para averiguar la identidad del asesino. El detective, al que los avatares de su propia existencia han convertido en un esceptico, va adentrandose en una trampa apasionante, rescatando de un tiempo escondido las vivencias de unos personajes inolvidables...

Dos hermanos gemelos con una profunda capacidad para comunicarse sin palabras. Una carta fragmentada en tres folios que los conduce a una aventura familiar, a la entraña de un misterio de dolor y anhelo de supervivencia. Un viaje que les hace experimentar y desvelar algunos de los grandes secretos de la filiación. El verano más inolvidable de sus vidas. "Twins with a profound capacity for communicating without words. A fragmented letter in three...