A journalist is tasked with investigating the life of his great-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa. All that is known about her is that she -fled Madrid shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, abandoning her husband and son.
To rescue her from oblivion, he will have to put together all the pieces of the extraordinary puzzle of her life, one by one, which will take him to Paris, London, Cairo, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Athens... A riveting novel featuring characters whose lives paint a magni- cent portrait of the history of the twentieth century.
A captivating story filled with tension and drama that represents an exciting new direction in the literary career of one of Spain's most international authors.
Julia Navarro: With 6 million readers worldwide, Julia Navarro weaves intimate lives and global circumstance with candid honesty. Despite hanging up her journalist credentials after the success of her third novel, Navarro's "precision of language" gets to the heart of the matter at every line. Published in over 30 countries, Navarro's work conjures universal appeal as she pursues an intellectual and personal passion for authenticity and truth. Whose truth? The characters, the historical moment, her own -- truths that get to the center of our collective contemporary soul. Now launching her seventh novel, You Shall Not Kill, Julia Navarro invites you to reinvent yourself as she does with each work of groundbreaking fiction.
A journalist is tasked with investigating the life of his great-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa. All that is known about her is that she -fled Madrid shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, abandoning her husband and son.
To rescue her from oblivion, he will have to put together all the pieces of the extraordinary puzzle of her life, one by one, which will take him to Paris, London, Cairo, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Athens... A riveting novel featuring characters whose lives paint a magni- cent portrait of the history of the twentieth century.
A captivating story filled with tension and drama that represents an exciting new direction in the literary career of one of Spain's most international authors.
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Julia Navarro: With 6 million readers worldwide, Julia Navarro weaves intimate lives and global circumstance with candid honesty. Despite hanging up her journalist credentials after the success of her third novel, Navarro's "precision of language" gets to the heart of the matter at every line. Published in over 30 countries, Navarro's work conjures universal appeal as she pursues an intellectual and personal passion for authenticity and truth. Whose truth? The characters, the historical moment, her own -- truths that get to the center of our collective contemporary soul. Now launching her seventh novel, You Shall Not Kill, Julia Navarro invites you to reinvent yourself as she does with each work of groundbreaking fiction.
