Pompas

Her lie came back to haunt her… Ten years ago Rachel and Stephen had had an affair—and the result was little Jamie. For reasons of her own, Rachel had told Stephen that Jamie was someone else's child. But when Rachel finally admitted Stephen was the father, he wouldn't believe her. He was convinced Rachel was a conniving, scheming woman who would go to any lengths to get what she wanted—and she appeared to want Stephen. Perhaps it wasn't a case of what Rachel wanted at all, but what Jamie needed—a dad! Jennifer Taylor "is sure to touch each and every heart in a unique but fierce way." ...

Una intriga romántica de la maestra del género, que describe con singular habilidad los personajes y sus sentimientos. Jo Ellen, una fotógrafa de éxito, se ve acosada por un desconocido que le envía fotos perturbadoras, entre las cuales hay una de su madre, desaparecida misteriosamente veinte años atrás. Es una foto terrible: en ella, su madre aparece desnuda, joven... y muerta. Desesperada, Jo Ellen abandona Nueva York y regresa a su casa en la costa de Georgia. Su familia aún sigue marcada por lo que considera un abandono inmotivado por parte de la madre. La presencia de Jo Ellen...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón concibió esta obra como un reconocimiento a sus lectores, que le habían seguido a lo largo de la saga iniciada con La Sombra del Viento. «Puedo conjurar rostros de chiquillos del barrio de la Ribera con los que a veces jugaba o peleaba en la calle, pero ninguno que quisiera rescatar del país de la indiferencia. Ninguno excepto el de Blanca.» Un muchacho decide hacerse escritor al descubrir que sus invenciones le regalan un rato más de interés por parte de la niña rica que le ha robado el corazón. Un arquitecto huye de Constantinopla con los planos de una biblioteca ...

The protagonist is Domenico, the young Abruzzese who at the beginning of the 1900s leaves his native town (Aielli in the heart of the Marsica) to go to work, like many other Italians, abroad and whom we met in the previous novel "Mathematical Intrigue in Buffalo". His great "passion", formulas and mathematical relationships, which had already aroused the wonder of the architect Wright, make the famous architect want him with him for the construction of two new buildings that he was commissioned to design. But Domenico is tied to his Erminia, the beautiful girl with whom he is always in love,...